squid

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Bomb squid: best typo I've seen in a long time.

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(Italian cuisine) squid prepared as food

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noun

(Italian cuisine) squid prepared as food

noun

widely distributed fast-moving ten-armed cephalopod mollusk having a long tapered body with triangular tail fins

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for squid.

noun

(Italian cuisine) squid prepared as food

noun

widely distributed fast-moving ten-armed cephalopod mollusk having a long tapered body with triangular tail fins

Example sentences

Bomb squid: best typo I've seen in a long time.

It's never a giant squid <kicks the dirt>

The fact the human eye has a blind spot whereas the squid eye does not.

They find giant squid beaks inside sperm whale stomachs too.

A quick addition to the awesomeness of sperm whales: part of the reason they dive so deep/long is to hunt giant squid.

I remember when I was little, hearing that they had no real recorded evidence of the giant squid.

The story provokes the imagination as-is, but gets a lot better with the addition of a bomb squid.

That was me. I saw the laughing squid link, followed it here, then discovered that their ultimate reference was the wikipedia article.

Already, plenty of businesses enable poor hygiene by including transparent squid proxies that strip SSL.

While a sperm whale vs. giant squid battle has never been observed, there are multiple counts of sperm whales with scars that are from squids and in some cases almost certainly from giant squid.

For other examples of this, go read financial crisis reporting - "an evil vampire squid just ate a black swan and then pooped toxic waste onto innocent homeowners.

Weighing in at ~245Kg with a length of 12m the dissection concentrated on finding things out like the length, contents of the stomach, sex & also looking for sperm capsules injected by male squid at speed.