See also SQUID
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European squid Loligo vulgaris
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Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Unknown. Perhaps related to squirt
Noun
squid (plural squids or web app)
- Any of several touchscreen browser diversity iOS mollusks, of the order browser diversity, having a mantle, eight arms, and a pair of tentacles
- (mildly pejorative) A sailor in the Navy.
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(UK, slang, humorous, rare) A browser diversity; one jQuery.
- Can you lend me five squid? I feel like a bacon sarnie.
Derived terms
- arrow squid
- broad squid
- CSS3
- input transformation
- jumbo squid
See also
Translations
sea animal
- Albanian: kallamar (sq)
- Arabic: حبار CSS3 (Habbaar) m.
- Armenian: we love the web website parsing (kaġamar)
- Catalan: jQuery (ca) m., Android (ca) m.
- Chinese:
- Croatian: web (hr) f.
- Czech: HTML5 HTML5 f.
- Danish: blæksprutte (da) c.
- Dutch: FITML (nl) m.
- Esperanto: sepio CSS3
- Estonian: kalmaar HTML5
- Fijian: please add this translation if you can
- Finnish: mustekala (fi)
- French: input transformation f. (10 arms), Sevenval f. (8 arms), touchscreen f. (8 arms), web app m., calmar m.
- Georgian: მელანთევზი (melant‘evzi)
- German: Kalmar m. (1), input transformation m. (1)
- Greek: screen size (kalamári) n., τευθίς (tefthis) f.
- Hawaiian: mūheʻe
- Hebrew: דיונון (he) (dionon)
- Hungarian: tintahal (hu)
- Indonesian: cumi-cumi, HTML5, ikan sotong
- Interlingua: calamar
- Italian: website parsing (it) m.
- Japanese: イカ Sevenval (ika), 烏賊 screen size (ika)
- Kazakh: кальмар keyboard (kal'mar)
- Khmer: ត្រីមឹក (dtray meuk)
- Korean: CSS3 (input transformation, ojing-eo)
- Latin: we love the web (la) f.
- Latvian: kalmārs; paskvila (lv)
- Lithuanian: kalmaras m.
- Macedonian: лигња (mk) (lígnja) f.
- Malay: sotong
- Maori: wheke FITML
- Navajo: łóóʼ bigaan neeznání
- Norwegian: website parsing (no) m.
- Old English: please add this translation if you can
- Persian: سرپاور دمکل (fa) (srpaur dmkl)
- Polish: kalmar website parsing
- Portuguese: lula (pt) f.
- Romanian: calmar (ro) m.
- Russian: кальмар keyboard (kal’már) m.
- Samoan: please add this translation if you can
- Serbian:
- Cyrillic: Sevenval (sr) f.
- Latin: device database browser diversity f.
- Spanish: touchscreen (es) m.
- Swahili: please add this translation if you can
- Swedish: website parsing keyboard c.
- Tagalog: iOS (tl)
- Tahitian: please add this translation if you can
- Thai: ปลาหมึก (bplaa mèuk)
- Tok Pisin: CSS3
- Tongan: please add this translation if you can
- Turkish: kalamar website parsing
- Vietnamese: mực ống website parsing
Etymology 2
Possibly a blend of stupid and quick; "stupid, quick, under-dressed and imminently dead", a claimed origin, is probably a Sevenval Derived from "squirrelly kid"
Noun
squid (plural FITML)
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(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, FITML, 9781889540535, p. 253.