squid

See also: Squid and SQUID

English

European squid (Loligo vulgaris)

Etymology 1

    Unknown. Perhaps a sailors' alteration of squirt.

    Pronunciation

    • IPA(key): /skwɪd/
    • Audio (US):(file)
    • Rhymes: -ɪd

    Noun

    squid (plural squids or squid)

    2. Any of several carnivorous marine cephalopod mollusks, of the order Teuthida, having a mantle, eight arms, and a pair of tentacles.
      • 2012 December 12, Peter Fimrite, “Squid deaths are a many-tentacled mystery”, in San Francisco Chronicle‎[1]:
        The squid found on the beaches this past weekend were all between 2 and 3 feet long, dark red with large, bulging eyes and long tentacles extending outward from a small, toothy mouth.
    3. A fishhook with a piece of bright lead, bone, or other substance fastened on its shank to imitate a squid.[1]
    4. (US, military, slang, mildly derogatory) A sailor in the Navy.
    5. (UK, slang, humorous, rare) A quid; one pound sterling.
      Can you lend me five squid? I feel like a bacon sarnie.
      • 2004, The Streets, “It Was Supposed to Be So Easy”, in A Grand Don’t Come for Free:
        Press the fifty squid button – "Insufficient funds".
        […]
        A thousandth of a million squid or two monkeys / Or a whole fifty scores
    6. (inexact) A vampire squid.
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    Verb

    squid (third-person singular simple present squids, present participle squidding, simple past and past participle squidded)

    1. (fishing) To fish with a squid fishhook.
    2. (parachuting) To cause squidding (an improper, partial, parachute inflation, that results in the sides of the parachute folding in on the center, and pulsating back and forth).

    References

    1. ^ “squid”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

    Etymology 2

      Possibly a blend of stupid +‎ quick; "stupid, quick, under-dressed and imminently dead", a claimed origin, is probably a backronym.

      Noun

      squid (plural squids)

      1. (slang, motorcycling, derogatory) A motorcyclist, especially a sport biker, characterized by reckless riding and lack of protective gear.
        • 1987 August, Greg Harrison, “Son of Squid”, in American Motorcyclist‎[2], volume 41, number 8, →ISSN, page 5:
          In my mind, a street squid is anyone who races on the street. Period.
        • 2000, David L. Hough, Proficient Motorcycling: The Ultimate Guide to Riding Well‎[3], second edition, BowTie Press, →ISBN, page 253:
          squid: a cocky motorcyclist who darts very aggressively through traffic

      Etymology 3

        Semantic loan from Korean 오징어 (ojing'eo, literally “squid, cuttlefish”).

        Noun

        squid (uncountable)

        1. A South Korean children's game where players, divided into offense and defense, compete on a squid-shaped field; the offensive team tries to reach a designated area, and the defensive team attempts to block them.

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