squid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /skwɪd/
rhymes: -ɪd
Forms: form: squids
form: squid
Etymology: Unknown. Perhaps a sailors' alteration of squirt.
Senses: glosses: Any of several carnivorous marine cephalopod mollusks, of the order Teuthida, having a mantle, eight arms, and a pair of tentacles
glosses: A fishhook with a piece of bright lead, bone, or other substance fastened on its shank to imitate a squid.
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A sailor in the Navy.
examples: text: Can you lend me five squid? I feel like a bacon sarnie.
text: Press the fifty squid button – "Insufficient funds".
[…]
A thousandth of a million squid or two monkeys / Or a whole fifty scores
ref: 2004, The Streets, “It Was Supposed to Be So Easy”, in A Grand Don’t Come for Free:
glosses: A quid; one pound sterling.
qualifier: inexact
glosses: A vampire squid.
Derived terms: taxonomic: Gonatus fabricii
word: arctic squid
alt: Illex argentinus
word: Argentine shortfin squid
word: arrow squid
alt: Lolliguncula brevis
word: Atlantic brief squid
taxonomic: Loligo spp.
word: Atlantic squid
taxonomic: Helicocranchia pfefferi
word: banded piglet squid
taxonomic: Sepioteuthis lessoniana
word: bigfin reef squid
taxonomic: Magnapinna spp.
word: bigfin squid
alt: Ornithoteuthis
word: bird squid
english: order Sepiolida
translation: order Sepiolida
word: bobtail squid
word: bottletail squid
alt: Uroteuthis etheridgei
word: broad squid
taxonomic: Batoteuthis skolops
word: bush-club squid
taxonomic: Sepioteuthis sepioidea
word: Caribbean reef squid
english: family Cranchiidae
translation: family Cranchiidae
word: cockatoo squid
taxonomic: Mesonychoteuthis hamiltoni
word: colossal squid
word: common squid
word: damp squid
alt: Taningia danae
word: Dana octopus squid
word: dumpling squid
taxonomic: Loligo vulgaris
word: European squid
alt: Watasenia scintillans
word: firefly squid
english: family Pyroteuthidae
translation: family Pyroteuthidae
word: fire squid
english: family Ommastrephidae
translation: family Ommastrephidae
word: flying squid
english: family Architeuthidae
translation: family Architeuthidae
word: giant squid
taxonomic: Kondakovia longimana
word: giant warty squid
alt: Psychroteuthis glacialis
word: glacial squid
english: family Cranchiidae
translation: family Cranchiidae
word: glass squid
alt: Nototodarus gouldi
word: Gould's squid
alt: Lepidoteuthis grimaldii
word: Grimaldi scaled squid
taxonomic: Euprymna scolopes
word: Hawaiian bobtail squid
english: family Onychoteuthidae
translation: family Onychoteuthidae
word: hooked squid
alt: Enoploteuthis etc.
word: hook squid
alt: Dosidicus gigas
word: Humboldt squid
word: Japanese flying squid
taxonomic: Todarodes pacificus
word: Japanese common squid
alt: Histioteuthis spp.
word: jewel squid
alt: Joubiniteuthis portieri
word: Joubin's squid
word: jumbo flying squid
alt: Dosidicus gigas
word: jumbo squid
taxonomic: Spirula spirula
word: little post horn squid
taxonomic: Chiroteuthis veranyi
word: long-armed squid
taxonomic: Kondakovia longimana
word: longarm octopus squid
taxonomic: Doryteuthis pealeii
word: longfin inshore squid
alt: Ommastrephes bartramii
word: neon flying squid
alt: Nototodarus sloanii
word: New Zealand arrow squid
taxonomic: Sepioteuthis lessoniana
word: oval squid
taxonomic: Todarodes pacificus
word: Pacific flying squid
english: family Loliginidae
translation: family Loliginidae
word: pencil squid
word: pygmy squid
taxonomic: Spirula spirula
word: ram's horn squid
word: red flying squid
alt: Ommastrephes bartramii
word: red squid
taxonomic: Sepioteuthis sepioidea
word: reef squid
taxonomic: Thysanoteuthis rhombus
word: rhomboid squid
alt: Onykia robusta
word: robust clubhook squid
taxonomic: Ancistrocheirus lesueurii
word: sharpear enope squid
taxonomic: Doryteuthis plei
word: slender inshore squid
alt: Watasenia scintillans
word: sparkling enope squid
alt: Hetrololigo bleekeri
word: spear squid
taxonomic: Morone saxatilis
word: squidhound
taxonomic: Pseudocolus fusiformis
word: stinky squid
taxonomic: Vampyroteuthis infernalis
word: striped dumpling squid
taxonomic: Vampyroteuthis infernalis
word: striped pyjama squad
word: stubby squid
taxonomic: Spirula spirula
word: tail-light horn squid
taxonomic: Vampyroteuthis infernalis
word: vampire squid
english: family Mastigoteuthidae
translation: family Mastigoteuthidae
word: whip-lash squid
Related terms: calamari
cuttlefish
octopus