Meaning

2 senses

  1. To fish with a squid fishhook.

  2. To cause squidding (an improper, partial, parachute inflation, that results in the sides of the parachute folding in on the center, and pulsating back and forth).

Examples

32 sentences

  1. This squid is five quid.

    Цей кальмар коштує п'ять фунтів. — deniko

    ruЭтот кальмар - пять фунтов. — KamilOcean

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  2. A squid has ten legs.

    ruУ кальмара десять щупалец. — Inego

    deEin Kalmar hat zehn Tentakel. — Manfredo

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  3. I want to eat squid this evening.

    Сьогодні ввечері я хочу з'їсти кальмара. — lingvokrolik

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  4. I love to eat fried squid.

    ruЯ обожаю жареных кальмаров. — Karok

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  5. It's a dish with squid ink.

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Origin

Unknown. Perhaps a sailors' alteration of squirt.

Unknown. Perhaps a sailors' alteration of squirt.

Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0 · source

Forms

squids, squidding, squidded, squidded
Base formsquid · to squid
3rd person singularsquids
Present participlesquidding
Past simplesquidded
Past participlesquidded

irregular

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theysquid
he, she, itsquids

Past simpleLesson

all personssquidded

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave squidded
he, she, ithas squidded

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill squid

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
squeezeB2squelchsquintC2squire

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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