Definition of squib in English:

squib

nounPlural squibs skwɪbskwɪb

1A small firework that burns with a hissing sound before exploding.
（在爆炸前发出咝咝声的）小爆竹，小鞭炮
Example sentencesExamples
- The elderly residents of Ardmaine Nursing Home on the Fullerton Road suffer nightly harassment and are unable to sleep as youths throw squibs and bangers at the windows, according to a member of staff.
- It was worth just 9 - squibs don't come much damper.
- These were the explosions that created Bikini's wrecks, but atomic bombs were squibs compared to what was to come.
- Cska were fined 1000 leva because their fans threw squibs.
- Now for a quick fix in keeping with the company's rig-it-and-roll mentality: we look for ‘CueCat2’ to come stuffed with a tiny squib, detonated by opening the plastic housing.
- Based on that pulsed information, the missile's guidance electronics fire a series of small squibs on the forward attitude control motor to push the missile into the correct azimuth to impact the target.
- The guy gets shot, he falls backwards, the squib explodes, tearing open his shirt clearly letting us see the blood package taped to his chest.
- Speaking about the consequences of fireworks on dogs, operations director Jane Patmore said many guide dogs were forced into early retirement due to the misuse of rockets and squibs.
- This is in addition to the blanks, squibs and small arms like grenades that were employed.
- In terms of action, though, the Club Hell sequence, at the beginning of the film, rates as one of her fondest memories, because ‘the pressure to get every move right and be in sync with all the squibs and the explosions was immense’.
- I have these little squibs that explode to make it look like bullets are hitting.
- We spent a whole day with zombies and squibs going off.
- On emerging from a close that night Robert was hurt in the face by shot from a pistol belonging to a fellow student Arthur Tran, who with a group of other students was firing a pistol and letting off squibs.
- Metal-penetrating oil can kill primers, and if it gets inside the powder charge, can again cause disastrous duds and even more disastrous squibs.
- Regardless, Rice seeks payback, and before you can say ‘I'll never get these 95 minutes of my life back,’ guns blaze and squibs pop and general mayhem ensues.
- Spark must have left her fireworks out in the rain before setting off this box of squibs.
- He claims he was struck on the forehead by a squib during filming and is now suing the studio for extreme mental, physical and emotional pain and suffering that ‘caused him to employ physicians’.
- Of course this looks way cool on film, especially in slow motion with squibs full of stage blood bursting explosively, and has therefore become an established idiom of fictional ballistics.
- A couple of squibs later and he was lying on the floor in a pool of fake blood.
- During his last days Parsons was reduced to working for Hollywood movies, making tiny explosive squibs that mimicked a man being shot.
Synonyms
slapstick comedy, broad comedy, slapstick, burlesque, vaudeville, travesty, buffoonery
2A short piece of satirical writing.
讽刺短文
Example sentencesExamples
- His acting is so total that he totals every ordinary part; only his own one-man squibs and diatribes, envenomed caricatures, and scurrilous jibes can contain his rant.
- But ‘To a Communist’ is more than just a satirical squib; its satire depends on MacNeice's literary-critical reading of Spender's text.
- Songs of 19th century weavers are preserved alongside current anti-war parodies like the wonderful Glaswegian squib sung to the tune of the Italian resistance song, ‘Bella Ciao’.
- Horace Walpole had written a squib against him, which Rousseau attributed to Hume.
- Mowl is unusual for writing many books which are not offered as the last word on their subjects but as irreverent, amusing squibs, serving an intellectually stimulating role because they take nothing for granted.
- One of the delights of his squibs is the gleeful elision of NewLab multi-culti PC-speak with management gobbledegook and Pentagonese.
Synonyms
satire, burlesque, lampoon, pastiche, caricature, take-off, skit, imitation, impression, impersonation, mockery, mimicry, travesty
1. 2.1North American A short news item or filler in a newspaper.
  〈北美〉（报纸的）短新闻；补白
  Example sentencesExamples
  There must be movies based on a single sentence - perhaps a squib of a newspaper story or a line of scripture or one famous quote.
  While his squibs are sometimes cast with a conservative slant, his ‘developing’ scoops often send the mainstream media scrambling to catch up.
  After that little squib in today's Wall Street Journal, I thought it was time to let you know about the new book.
  But they all seem to cite back to this little squib in the Post.
  A ready market thus opened up for political propaganda - in the form of pamphlets, newspapers, broadsides, squibs, and caricatures - and the print trade rushed to meet it.
  Compare his incomplete squibs to the reporting done by the Miami Herald's Glenn Garvin.
  Someone should snap her up just for the sharpness of her headlines, one-line squibs, and nifty asides.
  But that little squib on Lex's views is all by way of background.
  It's just a short squib of a post, but tartly phrased.
  Do you think a decent newspaper might want to fill out the record, to qualify Armstrong's views with a post-publication squib that she has a barrow to push - a paid barrow?
  Today's editorial page had a little squib: ‘National Turn-off-the-Television week comes around every year.’
  I would surmise that the offending editor thought that the point of the squib was merely Churchill's strong castigation of the ‘tedious nonsense’ in ministerial minutes.
  With the exception of a few newspaper wire squibs and profiles of hometown UNICEF volunteers, the story was completely ignored in the U.S. press.
  As a kind of farewell to 2003, I wrote a little squib for Warren Ellis this morning, as part of a series of ruminations on the future that he's putting together on Die Puny Humans.
  Me, I rather felt that Rich had missed the big important news story, which is offered as a squib at the end.
3informal A small, slight, or weak person, especially a child.
〈非正式〉瘦小者；体弱者（尤指小孩）
Example sentencesExamples
- I was only a little squib - he definitely seemed to be older than his age.
- I can tell by your spiritual power that you are no squib.
4American Football
A short kick on a kick-off.
〔美橄〕到位开球
Example sentencesExamples
- No time to talk, he insists; got to splice together a two-minute tape on kick-offs - on-sides, squibs, deep kicks.
- "I was told to kick a hard squib, shade left," Bryant said.
- With five seconds left in the game, Guerra kicked a short squib which Prospect quickly downed.

verbsquibs, squibbed, squibbing skwɪbskwɪb

1American Football
with object Kick (the ball) a comparatively short distance on a kick-off; execute (a kick) in this way.
〔美橄〕到位开（球）
we decided to squib the kick
Example sentencesExamples
- On kick-offs, they're squibbing the ball or kicking it short.
- He squibbed the kick and had to make the tackle himself, prompting Spurrier to slam his clipboard, visor and headset to the ground.
- We kick the ball down there, squib it, keep it inside and we'll probably take five seconds off of the clock and they'll have it at the twenty-five, thirty yard line, making them make about a forty-five yard play to get in field goal range.
- After taking the lead on Steve Christie's 41-yard field goal with 16 seconds remaining, the Bills elected to pop up the kickoff instead of squibbing it.
- Wuerffel squibbed a kickoff in the fourth quarter because Conway suffered what he called a ‘total failure’ of his leg, and to add insult to the injury, Wuerffel was forced to make the tackle on the return.
2archaic no object Utter, write, or publish a satirical or sarcastic attack.
〈古〉挖苦；写（或发表）讽刺文章
it is a sport now to taunt and squib and deride at other men's virtues
1. 2.1with object Lampoon.
  讽刺
  the mendicant parson, whom I am so fond of squibbing
  那个我非常喜欢挖苦的行乞牧师。
  Example sentencesExamples
  That is the sort of decision that real leaders of this nation have to take, and you have squibbed it.
  In squibbing it as they saw it, she betrayed their trust.
  Your Honour, I do not want to squib the answer, but the answer is maybe, and I will need to spend a little more time later saying why it is maybe, rather than yes.
  But he squibs the solutions suggested by the Balmain Secession Movement, even though these point the way to reconciling suburban loyalties with the structures of local government.
  I have been much squibbed for this, perhaps by disappointed applicants for professorships, to which they were deemed incompetent.
  Synonyms
  mock, ridicule, hold up to ridicule, deride, make fun of, poke fun at, parody, lampoon, burlesque, caricature, take off, travesty

Origin

Early 16th century (in sense 1 of the noun): of unknown origin; perhaps imitative of a small explosion. The verb was first recorded in sense 2 of the verb (late 16th century).

Rhymes

bib, crib, dib, fib, glib, jib, lib, nib, rib, sib, snib

Definition of squib in US English:

squib

nounskwɪbskwib

1A small firework that burns with a hissing sound before exploding.
（在爆炸前发出咝咝声的）小爆竹，小鞭炮
Example sentencesExamples
- It was worth just 9 - squibs don't come much damper.
- Speaking about the consequences of fireworks on dogs, operations director Jane Patmore said many guide dogs were forced into early retirement due to the misuse of rockets and squibs.
- Now for a quick fix in keeping with the company's rig-it-and-roll mentality: we look for ‘CueCat2’ to come stuffed with a tiny squib, detonated by opening the plastic housing.
- Metal-penetrating oil can kill primers, and if it gets inside the powder charge, can again cause disastrous duds and even more disastrous squibs.
- Spark must have left her fireworks out in the rain before setting off this box of squibs.
- During his last days Parsons was reduced to working for Hollywood movies, making tiny explosive squibs that mimicked a man being shot.
- This is in addition to the blanks, squibs and small arms like grenades that were employed.
- He claims he was struck on the forehead by a squib during filming and is now suing the studio for extreme mental, physical and emotional pain and suffering that ‘caused him to employ physicians’.
- Cska were fined 1000 leva because their fans threw squibs.
- These were the explosions that created Bikini's wrecks, but atomic bombs were squibs compared to what was to come.
- We spent a whole day with zombies and squibs going off.
- Based on that pulsed information, the missile's guidance electronics fire a series of small squibs on the forward attitude control motor to push the missile into the correct azimuth to impact the target.
- The elderly residents of Ardmaine Nursing Home on the Fullerton Road suffer nightly harassment and are unable to sleep as youths throw squibs and bangers at the windows, according to a member of staff.
- The guy gets shot, he falls backwards, the squib explodes, tearing open his shirt clearly letting us see the blood package taped to his chest.
- In terms of action, though, the Club Hell sequence, at the beginning of the film, rates as one of her fondest memories, because ‘the pressure to get every move right and be in sync with all the squibs and the explosions was immense’.
- On emerging from a close that night Robert was hurt in the face by shot from a pistol belonging to a fellow student Arthur Tran, who with a group of other students was firing a pistol and letting off squibs.
- A couple of squibs later and he was lying on the floor in a pool of fake blood.
- Of course this looks way cool on film, especially in slow motion with squibs full of stage blood bursting explosively, and has therefore become an established idiom of fictional ballistics.
- Regardless, Rice seeks payback, and before you can say ‘I'll never get these 95 minutes of my life back,’ guns blaze and squibs pop and general mayhem ensues.
- I have these little squibs that explode to make it look like bullets are hitting.
Synonyms
slapstick comedy, broad comedy, slapstick, burlesque, vaudeville, travesty, buffoonery
2A short piece of satirical writing.
讽刺短文
Example sentencesExamples
- Horace Walpole had written a squib against him, which Rousseau attributed to Hume.
- His acting is so total that he totals every ordinary part; only his own one-man squibs and diatribes, envenomed caricatures, and scurrilous jibes can contain his rant.
- Mowl is unusual for writing many books which are not offered as the last word on their subjects but as irreverent, amusing squibs, serving an intellectually stimulating role because they take nothing for granted.
- But ‘To a Communist’ is more than just a satirical squib; its satire depends on MacNeice's literary-critical reading of Spender's text.
- Songs of 19th century weavers are preserved alongside current anti-war parodies like the wonderful Glaswegian squib sung to the tune of the Italian resistance song, ‘Bella Ciao’.
- One of the delights of his squibs is the gleeful elision of NewLab multi-culti PC-speak with management gobbledegook and Pentagonese.
Synonyms
satire, burlesque, lampoon, pastiche, caricature, take-off, skit, imitation, impression, impersonation, mockery, mimicry, travesty
1. 2.1North American A short news item or filler in a newspaper.
  〈北美〉（报纸的）短新闻；补白
  Example sentencesExamples
  I would surmise that the offending editor thought that the point of the squib was merely Churchill's strong castigation of the ‘tedious nonsense’ in ministerial minutes.
  With the exception of a few newspaper wire squibs and profiles of hometown UNICEF volunteers, the story was completely ignored in the U.S. press.
  While his squibs are sometimes cast with a conservative slant, his ‘developing’ scoops often send the mainstream media scrambling to catch up.
  Do you think a decent newspaper might want to fill out the record, to qualify Armstrong's views with a post-publication squib that she has a barrow to push - a paid barrow?
  Compare his incomplete squibs to the reporting done by the Miami Herald's Glenn Garvin.
  But that little squib on Lex's views is all by way of background.
  It's just a short squib of a post, but tartly phrased.
  After that little squib in today's Wall Street Journal, I thought it was time to let you know about the new book.
  Me, I rather felt that Rich had missed the big important news story, which is offered as a squib at the end.
  Today's editorial page had a little squib: ‘National Turn-off-the-Television week comes around every year.’
  As a kind of farewell to 2003, I wrote a little squib for Warren Ellis this morning, as part of a series of ruminations on the future that he's putting together on Die Puny Humans.
  A ready market thus opened up for political propaganda - in the form of pamphlets, newspapers, broadsides, squibs, and caricatures - and the print trade rushed to meet it.
  There must be movies based on a single sentence - perhaps a squib of a newspaper story or a line of scripture or one famous quote.
  Someone should snap her up just for the sharpness of her headlines, one-line squibs, and nifty asides.
  But they all seem to cite back to this little squib in the Post.
3informal A small, slight, or weak person, especially a child.
〈非正式〉瘦小者；体弱者（尤指小孩）
Example sentencesExamples
- I can tell by your spiritual power that you are no squib.
- I was only a little squib - he definitely seemed to be older than his age.
4American Football
A short kick on a kickoff.
〔美橄〕到位开球
Example sentencesExamples
- No time to talk, he insists; got to splice together a two-minute tape on kick-offs - on-sides, squibs, deep kicks.
- "I was told to kick a hard squib, shade left," Bryant said.
- With five seconds left in the game, Guerra kicked a short squib which Prospect quickly downed.
1. 4.1Baseball A blooper or infield grounder that becomes a base hit.
  Example sentencesExamples
  Only after Sojo's squib caused two runs to score did Valentine replace Leiter.
  He also singled and scored in the fifth and hit a squib for an infield single in the eighth.
  In the early days of baseball, it was legitimate to hit a squib that hit fair at first, and then rolled foul.

verbskwɪbskwib

1American Football
with object Kick (the ball) a comparatively short distance on a kickoff; execute (a kick) in this way.
〔美橄〕到位开（球）
Example sentencesExamples
- Wuerffel squibbed a kickoff in the fourth quarter because Conway suffered what he called a ‘total failure’ of his leg, and to add insult to the injury, Wuerffel was forced to make the tackle on the return.
- After taking the lead on Steve Christie's 41-yard field goal with 16 seconds remaining, the Bills elected to pop up the kickoff instead of squibbing it.
- We kick the ball down there, squib it, keep it inside and we'll probably take five seconds off of the clock and they'll have it at the twenty-five, thirty yard line, making them make about a forty-five yard play to get in field goal range.
- He squibbed the kick and had to make the tackle himself, prompting Spurrier to slam his clipboard, visor and headset to the ground.
- On kick-offs, they're squibbing the ball or kicking it short.
1. 1.1Baseball Hit (the ball) with little force, usually with the end of the bat, the typical result being a blooper or infield grounder.
  Example sentencesExamples
  An inning later, catcher Ivan Rodriguez collected the first of his two runs batted in by squibbing a ball off Owen's glove as the shortstop tried to grab the grounder behind second.
  Tied 5-5 with two outs, Chris Jackson got in an 0-2 hole and fouled off the next two pitches before squibbing an infield single.
2archaic no object Utter, write, or publish a satirical or sarcastic attack.
〈古〉挖苦；写（或发表）讽刺文章
1. 2.1with object Lampoon.
  讽刺
  the mendicant parson, whom I am so fond of squibbing
  那个我非常喜欢挖苦的行乞牧师。
  Example sentencesExamples
  I have been much squibbed for this, perhaps by disappointed applicants for professorships, to which they were deemed incompetent.
  Your Honour, I do not want to squib the answer, but the answer is maybe, and I will need to spend a little more time later saying why it is maybe, rather than yes.
  That is the sort of decision that real leaders of this nation have to take, and you have squibbed it.
  But he squibs the solutions suggested by the Balmain Secession Movement, even though these point the way to reconciling suburban loyalties with the structures of local government.
  In squibbing it as they saw it, she betrayed their trust.
  Synonyms
  mock, ridicule, hold up to ridicule, deride, make fun of, poke fun at, parody, lampoon, burlesque, caricature, take off, travesty

Origin

Early 16th century (in squib (sense 1 of the noun)): of unknown origin; perhaps imitative of a small explosion. The verb was first recorded in squib (sense 2 of the verb) (late 16th century).

单词	squib
释义	Definition of squib in English: squib nounPlural squibs skwɪbskwɪb 1A small firework that burns with a hissing sound before exploding. （在爆炸前发出咝咝声的）小爆竹，小鞭炮 Example sentencesExamples The elderly residents of Ardmaine Nursing Home on the Fullerton Road suffer nightly harassment and are unable to sleep as youths throw squibs and bangers at the windows, according to a member of staff. It was worth just 9 - squibs don't come much damper. These were the explosions that created Bikini's wrecks, but atomic bombs were squibs compared to what was to come. Cska were fined 1000 leva because their fans threw squibs. Now for a quick fix in keeping with the company's rig-it-and-roll mentality: we look for ‘CueCat2’ to come stuffed with a tiny squib, detonated by opening the plastic housing. Based on that pulsed information, the missile's guidance electronics fire a series of small squibs on the forward attitude control motor to push the missile into the correct azimuth to impact the target. The guy gets shot, he falls backwards, the squib explodes, tearing open his shirt clearly letting us see the blood package taped to his chest. Speaking about the consequences of fireworks on dogs, operations director Jane Patmore said many guide dogs were forced into early retirement due to the misuse of rockets and squibs. This is in addition to the blanks, squibs and small arms like grenades that were employed. In terms of action, though, the Club Hell sequence, at the beginning of the film, rates as one of her fondest memories, because ‘the pressure to get every move right and be in sync with all the squibs and the explosions was immense’. I have these little squibs that explode to make it look like bullets are hitting. We spent a whole day with zombies and squibs going off. On emerging from a close that night Robert was hurt in the face by shot from a pistol belonging to a fellow student Arthur Tran, who with a group of other students was firing a pistol and letting off squibs. Metal-penetrating oil can kill primers, and if it gets inside the powder charge, can again cause disastrous duds and even more disastrous squibs. Regardless, Rice seeks payback, and before you can say ‘I'll never get these 95 minutes of my life back,’ guns blaze and squibs pop and general mayhem ensues. Spark must have left her fireworks out in the rain before setting off this box of squibs. He claims he was struck on the forehead by a squib during filming and is now suing the studio for extreme mental, physical and emotional pain and suffering that ‘caused him to employ physicians’. Of course this looks way cool on film, especially in slow motion with squibs full of stage blood bursting explosively, and has therefore become an established idiom of fictional ballistics. A couple of squibs later and he was lying on the floor in a pool of fake blood. During his last days Parsons was reduced to working for Hollywood movies, making tiny explosive squibs that mimicked a man being shot. Synonyms slapstick comedy, broad comedy, slapstick, burlesque, vaudeville, travesty, buffoonery 2A short piece of satirical writing. 讽刺短文 Example sentencesExamples His acting is so total that he totals every ordinary part; only his own one-man squibs and diatribes, envenomed caricatures, and scurrilous jibes can contain his rant. But ‘To a Communist’ is more than just a satirical squib; its satire depends on MacNeice's literary-critical reading of Spender's text. Songs of 19th century weavers are preserved alongside current anti-war parodies like the wonderful Glaswegian squib sung to the tune of the Italian resistance song, ‘Bella Ciao’. Horace Walpole had written a squib against him, which Rousseau attributed to Hume. Mowl is unusual for writing many books which are not offered as the last word on their subjects but as irreverent, amusing squibs, serving an intellectually stimulating role because they take nothing for granted. One of the delights of his squibs is the gleeful elision of NewLab multi-culti PC-speak with management gobbledegook and Pentagonese. Synonyms satire, burlesque, lampoon, pastiche, caricature, take-off, skit, imitation, impression, impersonation, mockery, mimicry, travesty 2.1North American A short news item or filler in a newspaper. 〈北美〉（报纸的）短新闻；补白 Example sentencesExamples There must be movies based on a single sentence - perhaps a squib of a newspaper story or a line of scripture or one famous quote. While his squibs are sometimes cast with a conservative slant, his ‘developing’ scoops often send the mainstream media scrambling to catch up. After that little squib in today's Wall Street Journal, I thought it was time to let you know about the new book. But they all seem to cite back to this little squib in the Post. A ready market thus opened up for political propaganda - in the form of pamphlets, newspapers, broadsides, squibs, and caricatures - and the print trade rushed to meet it. Compare his incomplete squibs to the reporting done by the Miami Herald's Glenn Garvin. Someone should snap her up just for the sharpness of her headlines, one-line squibs, and nifty asides. But that little squib on Lex's views is all by way of background. It's just a short squib of a post, but tartly phrased. Do you think a decent newspaper might want to fill out the record, to qualify Armstrong's views with a post-publication squib that she has a barrow to push - a paid barrow? Today's editorial page had a little squib: ‘National Turn-off-the-Television week comes around every year.’ I would surmise that the offending editor thought that the point of the squib was merely Churchill's strong castigation of the ‘tedious nonsense’ in ministerial minutes. With the exception of a few newspaper wire squibs and profiles of hometown UNICEF volunteers, the story was completely ignored in the U.S. press. As a kind of farewell to 2003, I wrote a little squib for Warren Ellis this morning, as part of a series of ruminations on the future that he's putting together on Die Puny Humans. Me, I rather felt that Rich had missed the big important news story, which is offered as a squib at the end. 3informal A small, slight, or weak person, especially a child. 〈非正式〉瘦小者；体弱者（尤指小孩） Example sentencesExamples I was only a little squib - he definitely seemed to be older than his age. I can tell by your spiritual power that you are no squib. 4American Football A short kick on a kick-off. 〔美橄〕到位开球 Example sentencesExamples No time to talk, he insists; got to splice together a two-minute tape on kick-offs - on-sides, squibs, deep kicks. "I was told to kick a hard squib, shade left," Bryant said. With five seconds left in the game, Guerra kicked a short squib which Prospect quickly downed. verbsquibs, squibbed, squibbing skwɪbskwɪb 1American Football with object Kick (the ball) a comparatively short distance on a kick-off; execute (a kick) in this way. 〔美橄〕到位开（球） we decided to squib the kick Example sentencesExamples On kick-offs, they're squibbing the ball or kicking it short. He squibbed the kick and had to make the tackle himself, prompting Spurrier to slam his clipboard, visor and headset to the ground. We kick the ball down there, squib it, keep it inside and we'll probably take five seconds off of the clock and they'll have it at the twenty-five, thirty yard line, making them make about a forty-five yard play to get in field goal range. After taking the lead on Steve Christie's 41-yard field goal with 16 seconds remaining, the Bills elected to pop up the kickoff instead of squibbing it. Wuerffel squibbed a kickoff in the fourth quarter because Conway suffered what he called a ‘total failure’ of his leg, and to add insult to the injury, Wuerffel was forced to make the tackle on the return. 2archaic no object Utter, write, or publish a satirical or sarcastic attack. 〈古〉挖苦；写（或发表）讽刺文章 it is a sport now to taunt and squib and deride at other men's virtues 2.1with object Lampoon. 讽刺 the mendicant parson, whom I am so fond of squibbing 那个我非常喜欢挖苦的行乞牧师。 Example sentencesExamples That is the sort of decision that real leaders of this nation have to take, and you have squibbed it. In squibbing it as they saw it, she betrayed their trust. Your Honour, I do not want to squib the answer, but the answer is maybe, and I will need to spend a little more time later saying why it is maybe, rather than yes. But he squibs the solutions suggested by the Balmain Secession Movement, even though these point the way to reconciling suburban loyalties with the structures of local government. I have been much squibbed for this, perhaps by disappointed applicants for professorships, to which they were deemed incompetent. Synonyms mock, ridicule, hold up to ridicule, deride, make fun of, poke fun at, parody, lampoon, burlesque, caricature, take off, travesty Origin Early 16th century (in sense 1 of the noun): of unknown origin; perhaps imitative of a small explosion. The verb was first recorded in sense 2 of the verb (late 16th century). Rhymes bib, crib, dib, fib, glib, jib, lib, nib, rib, sib, snib Definition of squib in US English: squib nounskwɪbskwib 1A small firework that burns with a hissing sound before exploding. （在爆炸前发出咝咝声的）小爆竹，小鞭炮 Example sentencesExamples It was worth just 9 - squibs don't come much damper. Speaking about the consequences of fireworks on dogs, operations director Jane Patmore said many guide dogs were forced into early retirement due to the misuse of rockets and squibs. Now for a quick fix in keeping with the company's rig-it-and-roll mentality: we look for ‘CueCat2’ to come stuffed with a tiny squib, detonated by opening the plastic housing. Metal-penetrating oil can kill primers, and if it gets inside the powder charge, can again cause disastrous duds and even more disastrous squibs. Spark must have left her fireworks out in the rain before setting off this box of squibs. During his last days Parsons was reduced to working for Hollywood movies, making tiny explosive squibs that mimicked a man being shot. This is in addition to the blanks, squibs and small arms like grenades that were employed. He claims he was struck on the forehead by a squib during filming and is now suing the studio for extreme mental, physical and emotional pain and suffering that ‘caused him to employ physicians’. Cska were fined 1000 leva because their fans threw squibs. These were the explosions that created Bikini's wrecks, but atomic bombs were squibs compared to what was to come. We spent a whole day with zombies and squibs going off. Based on that pulsed information, the missile's guidance electronics fire a series of small squibs on the forward attitude control motor to push the missile into the correct azimuth to impact the target. The elderly residents of Ardmaine Nursing Home on the Fullerton Road suffer nightly harassment and are unable to sleep as youths throw squibs and bangers at the windows, according to a member of staff. The guy gets shot, he falls backwards, the squib explodes, tearing open his shirt clearly letting us see the blood package taped to his chest. In terms of action, though, the Club Hell sequence, at the beginning of the film, rates as one of her fondest memories, because ‘the pressure to get every move right and be in sync with all the squibs and the explosions was immense’. On emerging from a close that night Robert was hurt in the face by shot from a pistol belonging to a fellow student Arthur Tran, who with a group of other students was firing a pistol and letting off squibs. A couple of squibs later and he was lying on the floor in a pool of fake blood. Of course this looks way cool on film, especially in slow motion with squibs full of stage blood bursting explosively, and has therefore become an established idiom of fictional ballistics. Regardless, Rice seeks payback, and before you can say ‘I'll never get these 95 minutes of my life back,’ guns blaze and squibs pop and general mayhem ensues. I have these little squibs that explode to make it look like bullets are hitting. Synonyms slapstick comedy, broad comedy, slapstick, burlesque, vaudeville, travesty, buffoonery 2A short piece of satirical writing. 讽刺短文 Example sentencesExamples Horace Walpole had written a squib against him, which Rousseau attributed to Hume. His acting is so total that he totals every ordinary part; only his own one-man squibs and diatribes, envenomed caricatures, and scurrilous jibes can contain his rant. Mowl is unusual for writing many books which are not offered as the last word on their subjects but as irreverent, amusing squibs, serving an intellectually stimulating role because they take nothing for granted. But ‘To a Communist’ is more than just a satirical squib; its satire depends on MacNeice's literary-critical reading of Spender's text. Songs of 19th century weavers are preserved alongside current anti-war parodies like the wonderful Glaswegian squib sung to the tune of the Italian resistance song, ‘Bella Ciao’. One of the delights of his squibs is the gleeful elision of NewLab multi-culti PC-speak with management gobbledegook and Pentagonese. Synonyms satire, burlesque, lampoon, pastiche, caricature, take-off, skit, imitation, impression, impersonation, mockery, mimicry, travesty 2.1North American A short news item or filler in a newspaper. 〈北美〉（报纸的）短新闻；补白 Example sentencesExamples I would surmise that the offending editor thought that the point of the squib was merely Churchill's strong castigation of the ‘tedious nonsense’ in ministerial minutes. With the exception of a few newspaper wire squibs and profiles of hometown UNICEF volunteers, the story was completely ignored in the U.S. press. While his squibs are sometimes cast with a conservative slant, his ‘developing’ scoops often send the mainstream media scrambling to catch up. Do you think a decent newspaper might want to fill out the record, to qualify Armstrong's views with a post-publication squib that she has a barrow to push - a paid barrow? Compare his incomplete squibs to the reporting done by the Miami Herald's Glenn Garvin. But that little squib on Lex's views is all by way of background. It's just a short squib of a post, but tartly phrased. After that little squib in today's Wall Street Journal, I thought it was time to let you know about the new book. Me, I rather felt that Rich had missed the big important news story, which is offered as a squib at the end. Today's editorial page had a little squib: ‘National Turn-off-the-Television week comes around every year.’ As a kind of farewell to 2003, I wrote a little squib for Warren Ellis this morning, as part of a series of ruminations on the future that he's putting together on Die Puny Humans. A ready market thus opened up for political propaganda - in the form of pamphlets, newspapers, broadsides, squibs, and caricatures - and the print trade rushed to meet it. There must be movies based on a single sentence - perhaps a squib of a newspaper story or a line of scripture or one famous quote. Someone should snap her up just for the sharpness of her headlines, one-line squibs, and nifty asides. But they all seem to cite back to this little squib in the Post. 3informal A small, slight, or weak person, especially a child. 〈非正式〉瘦小者；体弱者（尤指小孩） Example sentencesExamples I can tell by your spiritual power that you are no squib. I was only a little squib - he definitely seemed to be older than his age. 4American Football A short kick on a kickoff. 〔美橄〕到位开球 Example sentencesExamples No time to talk, he insists; got to splice together a two-minute tape on kick-offs - on-sides, squibs, deep kicks. "I was told to kick a hard squib, shade left," Bryant said. With five seconds left in the game, Guerra kicked a short squib which Prospect quickly downed. 4.1Baseball A blooper or infield grounder that becomes a base hit. Example sentencesExamples Only after Sojo's squib caused two runs to score did Valentine replace Leiter. He also singled and scored in the fifth and hit a squib for an infield single in the eighth. In the early days of baseball, it was legitimate to hit a squib that hit fair at first, and then rolled foul. verbskwɪbskwib 1American Football with object Kick (the ball) a comparatively short distance on a kickoff; execute (a kick) in this way. 〔美橄〕到位开（球） Example sentencesExamples Wuerffel squibbed a kickoff in the fourth quarter because Conway suffered what he called a ‘total failure’ of his leg, and to add insult to the injury, Wuerffel was forced to make the tackle on the return. After taking the lead on Steve Christie's 41-yard field goal with 16 seconds remaining, the Bills elected to pop up the kickoff instead of squibbing it. We kick the ball down there, squib it, keep it inside and we'll probably take five seconds off of the clock and they'll have it at the twenty-five, thirty yard line, making them make about a forty-five yard play to get in field goal range. He squibbed the kick and had to make the tackle himself, prompting Spurrier to slam his clipboard, visor and headset to the ground. On kick-offs, they're squibbing the ball or kicking it short. 1.1Baseball Hit (the ball) with little force, usually with the end of the bat, the typical result being a blooper or infield grounder. Example sentencesExamples An inning later, catcher Ivan Rodriguez collected the first of his two runs batted in by squibbing a ball off Owen's glove as the shortstop tried to grab the grounder behind second. Tied 5-5 with two outs, Chris Jackson got in an 0-2 hole and fouled off the next two pitches before squibbing an infield single. 2archaic no object Utter, write, or publish a satirical or sarcastic attack. 〈古〉挖苦；写（或发表）讽刺文章 2.1with object Lampoon. 讽刺 the mendicant parson, whom I am so fond of squibbing 那个我非常喜欢挖苦的行乞牧师。 Example sentencesExamples I have been much squibbed for this, perhaps by disappointed applicants for professorships, to which they were deemed incompetent. Your Honour, I do not want to squib the answer, but the answer is maybe, and I will need to spend a little more time later saying why it is maybe, rather than yes. That is the sort of decision that real leaders of this nation have to take, and you have squibbed it. But he squibs the solutions suggested by the Balmain Secession Movement, even though these point the way to reconciling suburban loyalties with the structures of local government. In squibbing it as they saw it, she betrayed their trust. Synonyms mock, ridicule, hold up to ridicule, deride, make fun of, poke fun at, parody, lampoon, burlesque, caricature, take off, travesty Origin Early 16th century (in squib (sense 1 of the noun)): of unknown origin; perhaps imitative of a small explosion. The verb was first recorded in squib (sense 2 of the verb) (late 16th century).
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