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Squib [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. A little pipe or hollow cylinder of paper, filled with powder or combustible matter and sent into the air, burning and bursting with a crack; a cracker.

2. Lampoons, like squibs, may make a present blaze.

3. The making and selling of squibs is punishable.

4. A sarcastic speech or little censorious writing published; a petty lampoon.

5. A pretty fellow. [Not in use.]

6. The squibs, in the common phrase, are called libellers.

Squib [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

To throw squibs; to utter sarcastic or severe reflections; to contend in petty dispute; as, two members of a society squib a little in debate. [Colloquial.]

Squib [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. A little pipe, or hollow cylinder of paper, filled with powder or combustible matter, to be thrown into the air while burning, so as to burst there with a crack.

2. A kind of slow match or safety fuse.

3. A sarcastic speech or publication; a petty lampoon; a brief, witty essay.

4. A writer of lampoons.

5. A paltry fellow.

Squib [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

To throw squibs; to utter sarcatic or severe reflections; to contend in petty dispute; as, to squib a little debate.

Squibbed [Imperfect tense and past participle] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Squibbing [Participle present tense] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Throwing squibs or severe reflections.

Squibbing [Present participle and verbal noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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