squid
noun
2.
widely distributed fast-moving ten-armed cephalopod mollusk having a long tapered body with triangular tail fins
Origin
Possibly a blend of stupid + quick; "stupid, quick, under-dressed and imminently dead", a claimed origin, is probably a backronym.
Phrases
- arctic squid
- Argentine shortfin squid
- arrow squid
- Atlantic brief squid
- Atlantic squid
- banded piglet squid
- bigfin reef squid
- bigfin squid
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