squid

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See also SQUID

English

European squid Loligo vulgaris

Pronunciation

• IPA: /skwɪd/

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• Rhymes: -ɪd

Etymology 1

Unknown. Perhaps related to squirt

Noun

squid (plural squids or squid)

1. Any of several carnivorous marine cephalopod mollusks, of the order Teuthida, having a mantle, eight arms, and a pair of tentacles
2. (mildly pejorative) A sailor in the Navy.
3. (UK, slang, humorous, rare) A quid; one pound sterling.

   Can you lend me five squid? I feel like a bacon sarnie.

Derived terms

• arrow squid
• broad squid
• colossal squid
• giant squid
• jumbo squid

See also

• Squid on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• calamari
• cuttlefish
• octopus

Translations

sea animal

Albanian: kallamar (sq) Arabic: حبار (ar) (Habbaar) m. Armenian: կաղամար (hy) (kaġamar) Catalan: calamars (ca) m., calamar (ca) m. Chinese: Mandarin: 烏賊 (cmn), 乌贼 (cmn) (wūzéi), 魷魚 (cmn), 鱿鱼 (cmn) (yóuyú) Croatian: lignja (hr) f. Czech: krakatice (cs) f. Danish: blæksprutte (da) c. Dutch: inktvis (nl) m. Esperanto: sepio (eo) Estonian: kalmaar (et) Fijian: please add this translation if you can Finnish: mustekala (fi) French: seiche f. (10 arms), pieuvre f. (8 arms), poulpe f. (8 arms), encornet m., calmar m. Georgian: მელანთევზი (melant‘evzi) German: Kalmar m. (1), Tintenfisch m. (1) Greek: καλαμάρι (kalamári) n., τευθίς (tefthis) f. Hawaiian: mūheʻe Hebrew: דיונון (he) (dionon) Hungarian: tintahal (hu) Indonesian: cumi-cumi, nus, ikan sotong Interlingua: calamar Italian: calamaro (it) m. Japanese: イカ (ja) (ika), 烏賊 (ja) (ika) Kazakh: кальмар (kk) (kal'mar) Khmer: ត្រី​មឹក (dtray meuk)

Korean: 오징어 (烏賊, ojing-eo) Latin: lōlīgō (la) f. Latvian: kalmārs; paskvila (lv) Lithuanian: kalmaras m. Macedonian: лигња (mk) (lígnja) f. Malay: sotong Maori: wheke (mi) Navajo: łóóʼ bigaan neeznání Norwegian: akkar (no) m. Old English: please add this translation if you can Persian: سرپاور دم‌کل (fa) (srpaur dmkl) Polish: kalmar (pl) Portuguese: lula (pt) f. Romanian: calmar (ro) m. Russian: кальмар (ru) (kal’már) m. Samoan: please add this translation if you can Serbian: Cyrillic: ли̏гња (sr) f. Latin: lȉgnja (sr) f. Spanish: calamar (es) m. Swahili: please add this translation if you can Swedish: bläckfisk (sv) c. Tagalog: pusit (tl) Tahitian: please add this translation if you can Thai: ปลาหมึก (bplaa mèuk) Tok Pisin: urita Tongan: please add this translation if you can Turkish: kalamar (tr) Vietnamese: mực ống (vi)

Etymology 2

Possibly a blend of stupid and quick; "stupid, quick, under-dressed and imminently dead", a claimed origin, is probably a backronym Derived from "squirrelly kid"

Noun

squid (plural squids)

1. (slang, motorcycling, pejorative) A motorcyclist characterized by lack of riding gear, reckless/careless/unsafe riding, especially of sport bikers.
   • "In my mind, a street squid is anyone who races on the street. Period."¹
   • "squid: a cocky motorcyclist who darts very aggressively through traffic"²

References

• Harrison, Greg. Son of Squid. American Motorcyclist. Vol. 41, No. 8. ISSN 0277-9358. p. 5. Aug 1987
• Hough, David L. (2000), Proficient Motorcycling: The Ultimate Guide to Riding Well (2nd ed.), USA: BowTie Press, p. 253, ISBN 1889540536, 9781889540535, p. 253.

Anagrams

• quids