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squid / skwid/ • n. (pl. same or squids ) an elongated, fast-swimming cephalopod mollusk with ten arms (technically, eight arms and two long tentacles), typically able to change color. • Order Teuthoidea and Vampyromorpha, class Cephalopoda, in particular the common genus Loligo. See also giant squid. ∎  this mollusk used as food. ∎  an artificial bait for fish imitating a squid in form. ∎ military slang a sailor.• v. (squid·ded, squid·ding) [intr.] fish using squid as bait.

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