A little pipe or hollow cylinder of paper, filled with powder or combustible matter and sent into the air, burning and bursting with a crack; a cracker. Lampoons, like squibs, may make a present blaze. The making and selling of squibs is punishable.

A sarcastic speech or little censorious writing published; a petty lampoon.

A pretty fellow. The squibs, in the common phrase, are called libellers.

To throw squibs; to utter sarcastic or severe reflections; to contend in petty dispute; as, two members of a society squib a little in debate.