Crossword-Solution: SQUIB
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Squib | a. | 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. |
| Squib | a. | A kind of slow match or safety fuse. |
| Squib | a. | A sarcastic speech or publication; a petty lampoon; a brief, witty essay. |
| Squib | a. | A writer of lampoons. |
| Squib | a. | A paltry fellow. |
| Squib | v. i. | To throw squibs; to utter sarcatic or severe reflections; to contend in petty dispute; as, to squib a little debate. |
We have 34 clues for the answer “SQUIB”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Firework, disappointing when damp | 1 answer |
| __ kick: tricky football ploy | 1 answer |
| Tidbit in a newspaper | 1 answer |
| Small firecracker | 1 answer |
| Short newspaper item | 1 answer |
| Short bit of writing | 1 answer |
| Newspaper filler piece | 1 answer |
| Line-drive kickoff | 1 answer |
| Lampoon; firework | 1 answer |
| In Harry Potter books, nonmagical offspring of wizard parents | 1 answer |
| Hissing firework | 1 answer |
| Filler news item | 1 answer |
| Filler in print | 1 answer |
| Difficult-to-field kick | 1 answer |
| A brief witty writing. | 1 answer |
| Short satire | 2 answers |
| Kind of kick in football | 2 answers |
| Short news bit | 2 answers |
| News filler | 2 answers |
| Very short story? | 2 answers |
| Small firework. | 3 answers |
| Short news item | 3 answers |
| Short news story | 3 answers |
| Witty saying | 4 answers |
| Firecracker | 6 answers |
| A witty saying | 10 answers |
| AN ITEM IN A NEWSPAPER | 10 answers |
| A LIT FIRECRACKER | 10 answers |
| Firework? | 12 answers |
| Lampoon | 35 answers |
| Short story? | 41 answers |
| Fuse | 46 answers |
| Satire | 47 answers |
| Witticism | 69 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ERATE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with SQUIB (5)
Gothard, We shall begin by way of rejoicing; None of that shooting the sky (blank cartridge), Nor a civic guard, all plumes and lacquer, Hunting Radetzky’s soul like a partridge Over Morello with squib and cracker.
Off with you! I have given a child a squib.’ CHAPTER XII—PROVIDENCE VON ROSEN: ACT THE SECOND SHE INFORMS THE PRINCE It was the first impulse of Madame von Rosen to return to her own villa and revise her toilette.
This world itself, travelling blindly and swiftly in over-crowded space, among a million other worlds travelling blindly and swiftly in contrary directions, may very well come by a knock that would set it into explosion like a penny squib.
Such, after years of rebellion, is the heart’s unconquerable reverence for the Lord’s anointed! In the next column, we have scripture parodied in a squib against his sacred Majesty.
For after this first squib-like conflagration of the dry moss and twigs, there remains behind a deep-rooted and consuming fire in the very entrails of the tree.
Quotes with SQUIB (1)
I am life,’ the girl said.‘What?’ he said, startled.‘To you, I am life. What are you, thirty-eight? Forty? What have you learned? Have you done anything? Look at me, look. I’m life and when you’re done with me, some of it rubs off on you. You don’t feel so old now, do you? With me here in the squib beside you.’Nick said, ‘I’m thirty-four and I don’t feel old. As a matter of fact, sitting here with you makes me feel older, not younger. Nothing is rubbing off.’‘It will,’ she said.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WSJ.
Used 34 times in crossword archives (1959–2024).