Any small firecracker sold to the general public. Usually available in special clusters designed to explode in series after a single master fuze is lit
English Navy squibs set fire to two dozen enemy ships in a Dutch harbor during the 16th century battle against the Spanish Armada.
In a legal casebook, a short summary of a legal action placed between more fully cited cases
A short article, often published in journals, that introduces empirical data problematic to linguistic theory or discusses an overlooked theoretical problem. In contrast to a typical linguistic article, a squib need not answer the questions that it poses
In this squib I will prove that the number of possible metrical parsings into feet under these assumptions.
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
You can describe something such as an event or a performance as a damp squib when it is expected to be interesting, exciting, or impressive, but fails to be any of these things. The all-party meeting was a damp squib