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资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Squib \Squib\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Squibbed}; p. pr. & vb. n.
   {Squibbing}.]
   To throw squibs; to utter sarcatic or severe reflections; to
   contend in petty dispute; as, to squib a little debate.
   [Colloq.]

Squib \Squib\, n. [OE. squippen, swippen, to move swiftky, 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. (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 re["e]choed 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.

资料来源 : WordNet®

squib
     n : firework consisting of a tube filled with powder (as a
         broken firecracker) that burns with a fizzing noise
     [also: {squibbing}, {squibbed}]
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