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squid

The definition of a squid is a long thin, meat eating marine creature with eight arms and two long tentacles.

(noun)

An example of a squid is the creature featured in the movie The Beast in 1996.

See squid in Webster's New World College Dictionary

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 bait

Origin: prob. < squit, dial. for squirt

intransitive verb squidded, squidding

to take on an elongated squidlike shape due to strong air pressure: said of a parachute
to fish for squid or with squid as bait

noun

an electronic device for detecting and measuring very weak magnetic fields and currents, esp. the minute ones in and around the brain and heart

Origin: s(uperconducting) qu(antum) i(nterference) d(evice)

See squid in American Heritage Dictionary 4

noun pl. squids squids or squid

Any of various marine cephalopod mollusks of the genus Loligo and related genera, having a usually elongated body, ten arms surrounding the mouth, a vestigial internal shell, and a pair of triangular or rounded fins.

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noun

A device that measures minute changes in magnetic flux by means of a pair of Josephson junctions, often used to detect extremely small changes in magnetic fields, electric currents, and voltages.

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Origin: s(uperconducting) qu(antum) i(nterference) d(evice)

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