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SQUIB, n. [This word probably belongs to the family of whip; denoting that which is thrown.]

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.

Lampoons, like squibs, may make a present blaze.

The making and selling of squibs is punishable.

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

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

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

SQUIB, v.i. 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.]

1913 Definition
Squib (squib)
n.(skw***ibreve]b)
Squib
[OE. squippen, swippen, to move swiftly, Icel. svipa to swoop, flash, dart, whip; akin to AS. swipian to whip, and E. swift, a. See Swift, a.]
  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. 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.
  6. To throw squibs] to utter sarcastic or severe reflections; to contend in petty dispute; as, to squib a little debate.
    [Colloq.]
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