squid

squid
1) A double-slang word: slang for the plural of quie, UK slang for a pound. (Actual plural is quid.)

Lend us 15 squid.

2) Aa person in the Navy, generally young, male, attitudinal, who scams on every 17 year-old girl he sees.
(I've only heard this used in Virginia Beach, VA.)

Check out that squid trying to pick up the high school girls over there.

3) Persons whose experience in an area, especially sports, especially paintball, would suggest that they should be more skillful or more knowledgable then they actually are.
Someone who should know better or play better.

John's a squid. He's been on the basketball team since freshman year and still can't make a free throw.


Dictionary of american slang with examples. .

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  • Squid — Aktuelle Version 3.1.16 (14. Oktober 2011) Betriebssystem plattformübergreifend Kategorie Proxyserver Lizenz GPL (Freie Software) …   Deutsch Wikipedia

  • Squid — (skw[i^]d), n. [Cf. {Squirt}.] 1. (Zo[ o]l.) Any one of numerous species of ten armed cephalopods having a long, tapered body, and a caudal fin on each side; especially, any species of {Loligo}, {Ommastrephes}, and related genera. See {Calamary} …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • squid — [skwid] n. pl. squids or squid [prob. < squit, dial. for SQUIRT] any of a number of long, slender, carnivorous cephalopod sea mollusks (esp. order Teuthoidea) having eight arms and two long tentacles: small squid are used as food and for fish… …   English World dictionary

  • Squid — Squid, calamar en idioma inglés, puede referirse a: Squid, programa que implementa un servidor proxy. Squid, sistema naval de armamento antisubmarino. SQUID, acrónimo inglés para dispositivos superconductores de interferencia cuántica. Esta… …   Wikipedia Español

  • Squid — es un proxy caché diseñado para correr en sistemas tipo UNIX, aunque también puede trabajar sobre Windows. Squid es software libre y tiene: 1. proxy y cache de HTTP, FTP, y otras URLs 2. proxy para SSL 3. cache hierarchies 4. ICP, HTCP, CARP,… …   Enciclopedia Universal

  • squid — squid·der; squid; SQUID; …   English syllables

  • squid — [skwıd] n plural squid or squids a sea creature with a long soft body and ten arms around its mouth …   Dictionary of contemporary English

  • SQUID — ● SQUID nom masculin (sigle de Superconducting QUantum Interference Device) Composant cryoélectronique constitué d un anneau supraconducteur comportant une jonction isolante et utilisé pour mesurer des champs magnétiques extrêmement faibles …   Encyclopédie Universelle

  • squid — [ skwıd ] noun count a sea animal like an OCTOPUS but with ten arms instead of eight a. uncount this animal eaten as food …   Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

  • squid — marine mollusk, 1610s, of unknown origin; perhaps a sailors variant of SQUIRT (Cf. squirt), so called for the ink it squirts out …   Etymology dictionary

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