noun a fishhook with a piece of bright lead, bone, or other substance, fastened on its shank to imitate a squid.
2. squid ·noun any one of numerous species of ten-armed cephalopods having a long, tapered body, and a caudal fin on each side; especially, any species of loligo, ommastrephes, and related genera. ·see calamary, decacerata, dibranchiata.