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English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /skw?d/
• Rhymes: -?d

Etymology 1

Unknown. Perhaps related to squirt.

Noun

squid (plural squids or squid)

1. Any of several carnivorous marine cephalopod mollusks, of the order Teuthida, having a mantle, eight arms, and a pair of tentacles
2. A fishhook with a piece of bright lead, bone, or other substance fastened on its shank to imitate a squid.
3. (US, military, slang, mildly derogatory) A sailor in the Navy.
4. (Britain, slang, humorous, rare) A quid; one pound sterling.

   Can you lend me five squid? I feel like a bacon sarnie.

Derived terms

Translations

References

• squid on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Teuthida on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Teuthida on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

See also

• calamari
• cuttlefish
• octopus

Verb

squid (third-person singular simple present squids, present participle squidding, simple past and past participle squidded)

1. (fishing) To fish with the kind of hook called a squid.
2. (parachuting) 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).

Etymology 2

Possibly a blend of stupid and quick; "stupid, quick, under-dressed and imminently dead", a claimed origin, is probably a backronym.

Noun

squid (plural squids)

1. (slang, motorcycling, derogatory) A motorcyclist, especially a sport biker, characterized by reckless riding and lack of protective gear.

   "In my mind, a street squid is anyone who races on the street. Period."¹

   "squid: a cocky motorcyclist who darts very aggressively through traffic"²

References

• Harrison, Greg. Son of Squid. American Motorcyclist. Vol. 41, No. 8. ISSN 0277-9358. p. 5. Aug 1987
• Hough, David L. (2000), Proficient Motorcycling: The Ultimate Guide to Riding Well (2nd ed.), USA: BowTie Press, p. 253, ?ISBN, 9781889540535, p. 253.

Anagrams

• Qudsi, quids

English

Etymology

From Old French divorce, from Latin d?vortium, from d?vertere (“to turn aside”), from d?- (“apart”) + vertere (“to turn”); see verse.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /d??v??s/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /d??v??s/
• (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /d??vo(?)?s/
• (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /d??vo?s/
• Rhymes: -??(?)s

Noun

divorce (countable and uncountable, plural divorces)

1. The legal dissolution of a marriage.

   Richard obtained a divorce from his wife some years ago, but hasn't returned to the dating scene.

2. A separation of connected things.

   The Civil War split between Virginia and West Virginia was a divorce based along cultural and economic as well as geographic lines.
3. (zoology) The separation of a bonded pair of animals.
4. (obsolete) That which separates.

Synonyms

• (legal dissolution of a marriage): divorcement
• (separation of connected things): partition, separation, severance

Antonyms

• marriage

Derived terms

• velvet divorce

Translations

Verb

divorce (third-person singular simple present divorces, present participle divorcing, simple past and past participle divorced)

1. (transitive) To legally dissolve a marriage between two people.

2. (transitive) To end one's own marriage to (a person) in this way.

3. (intransitive) To obtain a legal divorce.

4. (transitive) To separate something that was connected.

Synonyms

• (to legally dissolve a marriage): split up
• (to separate something that was connected): disassociate, disjoint, dissociate, disunite, separate

Antonyms

• marry

Derived terms

• innocently divorced

Translations

Anagrams

• codrive

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /di.v??s/

Etymology 1

From Latin d?vortium.

Noun

divorce m (plural divorces)

1. divorce

Derived terms

• divorcer

Etymology 2

Verb

divorce

1. first-person singular present indicative of divorcer
2. third-person singular present indicative of divorcer
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of divorcer
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of divorcer
5. second-person singular imperative of divorcer

Further reading

• “divorce” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).