Squib /(skwĭb)/

1. A little pipe, or hollow cylinder of paper, filled with powder or combustible matter, to be thrown into the air while burning, so as to burst there with a crack.

   Lampoons, like squibs, may make a present blaze.

   The making and selling of fireworks, and squibs . . . is punishable.

2. A kind of slow match or safety fuse. (Mining)
3. A sarcastic speech or publication; a petty lampoon; a brief, witty essay.

   Who copied his squibs, and reechoed his jokes.

4. A writer of lampoons. [Obs.]

   The squibs are those who in the common phrase of the world are called libelers, lampooners, and pamphleteers.

5. A paltry fellow. [Obs.]

imp. & p. p. Squibbed; p. pr. & vb. n. Squibbing

1. To throw squibs; to utter sarcastic or severe reflections; to contend in petty dispute; as, to squib a little in debate. [Colloq.]