Can you lend me five squid? I feel like a bacon sarnie.
Press the fifty squid button – "Insufficient funds". […] A thousandth of a million squid or two monkeys / Or a whole fifty scores2004, The Streets, “It Was Supposed to Be So Easy”, in A Grand Don’t Come for Free:
Etymology Unknown. Perhaps a sailors' alteration of squirt.
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Fishing, Hobbies, Lifestyle To fish with a squid fishhook.
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Hobbies, Lifestyle, Parachuting To cause squidding (an improper, partial, parachute inflation, that results in the sides of the parachute folding in on the center, and pulsating back and forth).
squid
noun
Etymology Possibly a blend of stupid + quick; "stupid, quick, under-dressed and imminently dead", a claimed origin, is probably a backronym.
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Hobbies, Lifestyle, MotorcyclingDerogatory, Slang A motorcyclist, especially a sport biker, characterized by reckless riding and lack of protective gear.
"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
squid
noun
Etymology Calque of Korean 오징어 (ojing'eo).
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A South Korean children's game where players, divided into offense and defense, compete on a squid-shaped field; the offensive team tries to reach a designated area, and the defensive team attempts to block them.