meaning of squibs
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.
6. To throw squibs; to utter sarcatic or severe reflections; to contend in petty dispute; as, to squib a little debate.
7. firework consisting of a tube filled with powder as a broken firecracker that burns with a fizzing noise
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