squid

Etymology 1
. Perhaps a sailors' alteration of.

Noun

 * 1) Any of several carnivorous marine cephalopod mollusks, of the order, 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)  A sailor in the Navy.
 * 4)  A quid; one pound sterling.

Translations

 * Afrikaans:
 * Ainu: パㇱサンナ, マシタンペ
 * Albanian:
 * Arabic:
 * Egyptian Arabic: توتيا, سبيط, كلامارى,
 * Tunisian Arabic: سيبيا, سوبية, سوبيا, شوباي, شوابي
 * Armenian:
 * Azerbaijani: kalmar
 * Basque: txibia
 * Bau Bidayuh: sutung
 * Belarusian:
 * Bengali:
 * Brunei Malay: sutung
 * Bulgarian:
 * Burmese:
 * Catalan: ,
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 魷魚
 * Hokkien: 魷魚, 鰇魚
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Wu: 魷魚
 * Cornish: stifek
 * Czech:
 * Danish: blæksprutte
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: sepio,
 * Estonian: kalmaar
 * Faroese: høgguslokkur
 * Fijian: sulua
 * Finnish: ,
 * French: (10 arms),  (8 arms),  (8 arms), ,
 * Galician:
 * Georgian: მელანთევზი
 * German: ,
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: τευθίς
 * Greenlandic: amikoq
 * Gujarati: સ્ક્વિડ
 * Hawaiian: mūheʻe, heʻe
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi:, स्क्विड
 * Hungarian:, ,
 * Icelandic: ,
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian:, , ikan sotong
 * Interlingua: calamar
 * Irish: scuid, máthair shúigh
 * Isan:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:, 鰞, 柔魚,
 * Javanese: iwak nus
 * Kannada: ಸ್ಕ್ವಿಡ್
 * Kazakh: кальмар
 * Khmer: ត្រីមឹក,, យៀវហ៊ឺ
 * Korean:
 * Kyrgyz:
 * Lao: ຫມຶກ, ປາອີ່ຮື
 * Latin: lōlīgō
 * Latvian: kalmārs
 * Lithuanian: kalmaras
 * Lü:
 * Macedonian: ли́гна
 * Malay: sotong
 * Malayalam: കൂന്തൾ
 * Maltese: klamar
 * Manx: dyachlym, peie vreinn, squid
 * Maori: wheke, ngū
 * Marathi: स्क्विड
 * Mi'kmaq: seta'su
 * Navajo: łóóʼ bigaan neeznání, łóóʼ bigaan neeznání íiyisígíí
 * Nepali: स्क्विड
 * Norman: cônet
 * Northern Thai:
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Old English: cudele
 * Orok: askuttu
 * Persian:, انکاس
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Quechua: samanna
 * Romanian: calamar,
 * Russian:
 * Sambali: posit
 * Samoan: gūfe'e, fe'e
 * Sassarese: tòtanu
 * Scottish Gaelic: gibeanach, gibearnach, gubarnach, iasg-cutail
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: ли̏гња
 * Roman:
 * Sinhalese: දැල්ලා
 * Slovak: kalmar
 * Slovene:
 * Southern Thai:
 * Spanish:
 * Sundanese:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: pusit
 * Tahitian: fee
 * Tajik: калмар
 * Tamil:
 * Telugu: స్క్విడ్
 * Thai: ,
 * Tigrinya: ኣቡ ቐለም
 * Tok Pisin: urita
 * Tongan: 'atalava
 * Turkish: ,
 * Turkmen: kalmar
 * Ukrainian: кальма́р
 * Urdu: سکویڈ, قیر ماہی
 * Uyghur: كالمار
 * Uzbek: kalmar
 * Vietnamese: mực ống
 * Waray-Waray: nuos
 * Welsh: ystifflog, môr-lawes, twyllwr du, pibwr inc
 * Yiddish: טינטפֿיש
 * Zazaki: kalamar
 * Zhuang: byayouzyiz

Verb

 * 1)  To fish with the kind of hook called a squid.
 * 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.

Etymology 2
Possibly a ; "stupid, quick, under-dressed and imminently dead", a claimed origin, is probably a backronym.

Noun

 * 1)  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