SQUIB, n. [This word probably belongs to the family of whip; denoting that which is thrown.]
1. A little pipe or hollow cylinder of paper, filled with powder or combustible matter and sent into the air, burning and bursting with a crack; a cracker.
Lampoons, like squibs, may make a present blaze.
The making and selling of squibs is punishable.
2. A sarcastic speech or little censorious writing published; a petty lampoon.
3. A pretty fellow. [Not in use.]
The squibs, in the common phrase, are called libellers.
SQUIB, v.i. To throw squibs; to utter sarcastic or severe reflections; to contend in petty dispute; as, two members of a society squib a little in debate. [Colloquial.]
