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squib
noun- to act the coward AUSTRALIA, 1918
- So the old man had squibbed on it! — Robert S. Close, Love Me Sailor, p. 163, 1945
- — Jim Ramsay, Cop It Sweet!, p. 85, 1977
- to fire a gun to frighten rather than to wound CANADA
- To “squib the hens out of the porch” is to fire an old muzzle-loader with a small amount of powder to scare off the hens. — Lewis Poteet, The South Shore Phrase Book, p. 107, 1999
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