squib

noun

• 1a small firework that burns with a hissing sound before exploding.

• 2a short piece of satirical writing.
• North American a short news item or filler in a newspaper.

• 3 informal a small, slight, or weak person, especially a child.

• 4 American Football a short kick on a kick-off.

verb (squibs, squibbing, squibbed)

• 1 [with object] American Football kick (the ball) a comparatively short distance on a kick-off; execute (a kick) in this way: we decided to squib the kick

• 2 [no object] archaic utter, write, or publish a satirical or sarcastic attack: it is a sport now to taunt and squib and deride at other men’s virtues
• [with object] lampoon:the mendicant parson, whom I am so fond of squibbing