Note
Note noun - A usually brief written reminder.
Squib
Squib noun - Firework consisting of a tube filled with powder (as a broken firecracker) that burns with a fizzing noise.
Note and squib are semantically related in announcement topic. Sometimes you can use "Note" instead a noun "Squib".
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Taken to Artistic License Physics levels when Harber manages to block a point-blank shot from Linda with a pillow.note To be fair, she missed, but the way Ross Hagen holds the pillow when the squib fires makes it look like he was blocking the shot with it.
Source: Film / Wonder Women - Anzio (1968) note It gets a very light 7 because of the unusually bloody (for 1960s standards) squib on Jack Rabinoff (Peter Falk) when he gets shot.
Source: Mohs Scale of Violence Hardness
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