squid

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a marine cephalopod with ten arms and an elongated body

   The fishermen hauled in a net thick with wriggling squid.

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Of unknown origin, first recorded in the 17th century; possibly a sailors' variant of squirt, alluding to the animal's inky ejection, but the derivation is uncertain.

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