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Squib
Squib noun - Firework consisting of a tube filled with powder (as a broken firecracker) that burns with a fizzing noise.
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- Averted in Larry Niven's All the Myriad Ways, set in a world where travellers to parallel universes report worlds where the Cuba War was "a damp squib" (called the Cuban Missile Crisis) and return with different technology such as the stapler.
Source: Up the Real Rabbit Hole
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Squib and Report. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 15, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/report/squib
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