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squib

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5 lettersPronunciation /skwɪb/Part of speech nounSorted biqsuStarts with SEnds with B0 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. firework consisting of a tube filled with powder (as a broken firecracker) that burns with a fizzing noise

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  • English Navy squibs set fire to two dozen enemy ships in a Dutch harbor during the 16th-century battle against the Spanish Armada.
  • The making and selling of fireworks and squibs, or throwing them about on any street, is […] punishable by fine.
  • Ye nevvs-paper vvitlings! ye pert ſcribbling folks! / VVho copied his ſquibs, and re-echoed his jokes, […]

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