squid

Definition

Any of several carnivorous marine cephalopod mollusks, of the order Teuthida, having a mantle, eight arms, and a pair of tentacles

Etymology

Unknown. Perhaps a sailors' alteration of squirt.

Example Sentences

• "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 scores"

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