Thesaurus: squib

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1. a. 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. A kind of slow match or safety fuse.
3. a. A sarcastic speech or publication; a petty lampoon; a brief, witty essay.
4. a. A writer of lampoons.
5. a. A paltry fellow.
6. v. i. To throw squibs; to utter sarcatic or severe reflections; to contend in petty dispute; as, to squib a little debate.
7. n. firework consisting of a tube filled with powder (as a broken firecracker) that burns with a fizzing noise
8. 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. Lampoons, like squibs, may make a present blaze. Waller. The making and selling of fireworks, and squibs . . . is punishable. Blackstone. 2. (Mining) A kind of slow match or safety fuse. 3. A sarcastic speech or publication; a petty lampoon; a brief, witty essay. Who copied his squibs, and reëchoed his jokes. Goldsmith. 4. A writer of lampoons. [Obs.] The squibs are those who in the common phrase of the world are called libelers, lampooners, and pamphleteers. Tatler. 5. A paltry fellow. [Obs.] Spenser. To throw squibs; to utter sarcatic or severe reflections; to contend in petty dispute; as, to squib a little debate. [Colloq.]
9. n:100 n. firework consisting of a tube filled with powder (as a broken firecracker) that burns with a fizzing noise