squib

noun

• 1a small firework that burns with a hissing sound before exploding.
• a short piece of satirical writing.
• North American a short news item or filler in a newspaper.

• 2a small, slight, or weak person, especially a child.

• 3 Football a short kick on a kickoff.
• Baseball (also squibber) a blooper or infield grounder that becomes a base hit.

verb (squibs, squibbing, squibbed)

• 1 [with object] Football kick (the ball) a comparatively short distance on a kickoff; execute (a kick) in this way.
• Baseball hit (the ball) with little force, usually with the end of the bat, the typical result being a blooper or infield grounder.

• 2 [no object] archaic utter, write, or publish a satirical or sarcastic attack.
• [with object] lampoon:the mendicant parson, whom I am so fond of squibbing