English Explanatory Dictionary

squid

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Any of several carnivorous marine cephalopod mollusks, of the order Teuthida, having a mantle, eight arms, and a pair of tentacles
  2. A fishhook with a piece of bright lead, bone, or other substance fastened on its shank to imitate a squid.
  3. A sailor in the Navy.
  4. A quid; one pound sterling.
  5. A vampire squid.
verb
  1. To fish with a squid fishhook.
  2. To cause squidding (an improper, partial, parachute inflation, that results in the sides of the parachute folding in on the center, and pulsating back and forth).
noun
  1. A motorcyclist, especially a sport biker, characterized by reckless riding and lack of protective gear.
noun
  1. A South Korean children's game where players, divided into offense and defense, compete on a squid-shaped field; the offensive team tries to reach a designated area, and the defensive team attempts to block them.
noun
  1. Acronym of superconducting quantum interference device, a sensor that uses certain quantum effects to detect small magnetic fields.

Pronunciation

/skwɪd/ en-us-squid.ogg

Word forms

squid squids squidding squidded

Etymology

Unknown. Perhaps a sailors' alteration of squirt.

Related words

calamari cuttlefish octopus

Derived words

arctic squid Argentine shortfin squid arrow squid Atlantic brief squid Atlantic squid banded piglet squid bigfin reef squid bigfin squid bird squid bobtail squid bottletail squid broad squid bush-club squid Caribbean reef squid cockatoo squid colossal squid common squid damp squid Dana octopus squid dumpling squid European squid firefly squid fire squid flying squid giant squid giant warty squid glacial squid glass squid Gould's squid Grimaldi scaled squid Hawaiian bobtail squid hooked squid hook squid Humboldt squid Japanese flying squid Japanese common squid jewel squid Joubin's squid jumbo flying squid jumbo squid little post horn squid long-armed squid longarm octopus squid longfin inshore squid neon flying squid New Zealand arrow squid oval squid Pacific flying squid pencil squid pygmy squid ram's horn squid red flying squid red squid reef squid rhomboid squid robust clubhook squid sharpear enope squid slender inshore squid sparkling enope squid spear squid

Translations

Afrikaans: pylinkvis Ainu: パㇱサンナ Ainu: マシタンペ Ainu: エペッペッケ Albanian: kallamar Arabic: حَبَّار Arabic: توتيا Arabic: سبيط Arabic: كلماري Tunisian Arabic: سيبيا Tunisian Arabic: سوبية Tunisian Arabic: سوبيا Tunisian Arabic: شوباي Tunisian Arabic: شوابي Armenian: կաղամար Asturian: calamar Asturian: xibión Asturian: lulia Azerbaijani: kalmar Basque: txibia Basque: txipiroi Belarusian: кальма́р Bengali: স্কুইড Bau Bidayuh: sutung Bulgarian: калма́р Burmese: ပြည်ကြီးငါး Catalan: calamars Catalan: calamar Cherokee: ᏍᏈᏗ Chinese Cantonese: 魷魚 /鱿鱼 Chinese: 魷魚 /鱿鱼 Chinese: 鰇魚 /𬶧鱼 Chinese Mandarin: 烏賊 /乌贼 Chinese Mandarin: 魷魚 /鱿鱼 Wu Chinese: 魷魚 /鱿鱼 Cornish: stifek Czech: krakatice Danish: blæksprutte Dutch: inktvis Esperanto: kalmaro Estonian: kalmaar Faroese: høgguslokkur Fijian: sulua Finnish: kalmari Finnish: mustekala French: seiche French: encornet French: calmar Galician: lura Georgian: მელანთევზი German: Kalmar German: Tintenfisch Greek: καλαμάρι Ancient Greek: τευθίς Greenlandic: amikoq Gujarati: સ્ક્વિડ Hawaiian: mūheʻe Hawaiian: heʻe Hebrew: דְּיוֹנוּן Hindi: विद्रूप Hindi: स्क्विड
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