squadn.¹

Brit.

/skwɒd/, U.S.

/skwɑd/

Etymology: < French escouade, earlier esquade (esquouade ), variant of esquadre squader n.

1. Military.

a. A small number of men, a subdivision or section of a company, formed for drill or told off for some special purpose.

ΘΚΠ

society > armed hostility > armed forces > the Army > unit of army > [noun] > squad, platoon, section, etc.

glub1382

scalec1400

platoon?a1547

maniple1574

squadron1579

squader1590

squadrant1614

file1616

squada1657

peloton1702

section1913

a1657 G. Daniel Trinarchodia: Henry V clxxxv, in Poems (1878) IV. 147 The Ragged Squad, whose Pay, ill-husbanded, Gives him nor Shooes nor Shirt.

1673 Reg. Privy Counc. Scotl. IV. 98 The commander of that squad of his Majesties troup of guardes, quartered at Bathgate.

1757 G. Washington Writings (1889) I. 468 Divide your men into as many squads as there are Sergeants.

1811 Gen. Regulations & Orders Army 244 The Commanding Officer will cause them, by Squads of 20 or more, to move round the Vessel in double quick time, each Squad for ten or twelve minutes.

1844 Queen's Regulations & Orders Army 133 The Subaltern Officers, to whom the Squads are entrusted, are responsible for the same to the Captain.

1877 Field Exercise Infantry (rev. ed.) 4 Recruits formed into a Squad should be directed to observe the relative places they hold with each other.

b. awkward squad: (see quot. 1802).

ΘΚΠ

society > armed hostility > armed forces > the Army > unit of army > [noun] > squad, platoon, section, etc. > type of

awkward squad1796

ride1833

suicide squad1914

reaction force1923

society > armed hostility > warrior > soldier > soldier by type of service > [noun] > recruit > incompetent

awkward squad1796

the world > action or operation > ability > inability > unskilfulness > [noun] > clumsiness or awkwardness > person > collectively

awkward squad1796

1796 R. Burns in Wks. (1834) I. 344 John, don't let the awkward squad fire over me.

1802 C. James New Mil. Dict. (at cited word) The aukward squad consists not only of recruits at drill, but of formed soldiers that are ordered to exercise with them, in consequence of some irregularity under arms.

1842 T. B. Macaulay Frederic the Great in Ess. (1877) 659 The household regiments of Versailles and St. James's would have appeared an awkward squad.

1878 W. Besant & J. Rice By Celia's Arbour I. v. 68 The march and movement of troops,..the drill of the awkward squad, delighted his soul.

in extended use.1797 S. James Narr. Voy. 205 The butchers here are a truly aukward squad.1816 J. Gilchrist Philos. Etymol. 204 They consider him as belonging to the awkward squad.1856 P. Thompson Hist. & Antiq. Boston, Lincoln Provincialisms They're a dirty squad, an awkward squad.

c. Without article.

ΚΠ

1792 Rules & Regulations His Majesty's Forces i. 3 In the manner..prescribed, must each recruit be trained..in squad.

†2. = squadron n. 3. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

society > armed hostility > hostilities at sea > navy > a naval force or fleet > [noun] > squadron

squadron1588

squader1590

squadrant1614

squad1673

1673 in 10th Rep. Royal Comm. Hist. MSS (1885) App. i. 80 On Monday the fleets ingadged;..a whole squad surroundit Sir Edward Sprag, who was in the Royal Prince.

a1698 W. Row Contin. in R. Blair Life (1848) (modernized text) xii. 509 All that the King was able to do was to set out some squads of small ships.

a. A small number, group, or party of persons.

ΘΚΠ

society > society and the community > social relations > association, fellowship, or companionship > a company or body of persons > [noun] > small

squad1809

the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > state of being gathered together > an assemblage or collection > [noun] > group > specifically of people

eschelec1330

assortec1450

drift?c1450

flight1577

squader1590

squadron1617

group1711

platoon1711

squad1809

cuadrilla1838

clutch1908

1809 B. H. Malkin tr. A. R. Le Sage Adventures Gil Blas II. iv. ix. 184 In my mistress's female squad, there was a nymph named Portia.

1830 W. Scott Lett. Demonol. & Witchcraft ix. 284 The witches of Auldearn were so numerous that they were told off into squads, or covines.

1841 G. Catlin Lett. N. Amer. Indians I. xxiv. 201 The same intelligence was soon communicated by little squads to every family.

1856 E. K. Kane Arctic Explor. I. xx. 243 I cannot realize that some may not yet be alive; that some small squad or squads..may not have found a hunting-ground.

b. Const. of. Also transferred and figurative.

ΚΠ

1818 J. Keats Lett. in Wks. (1889) III. 115 I am in a high way of being introduced to a squad of people, Peter Pindar, Mrs. Opie, Mrs. Scott.

1822 W. Cobbett Rural Rides in Cobbett's Weekly Polit. Reg. 29 June 811 We saw..squads of labourers..migrating from tract to tract.

1857 G. Borrow Romany Rye II. xi. 160 He had a very shabby squad of animals, without soul or spirit.

1896 E. A. King Ital. Highways 91 A large squad of liveried servants.

1914 J. Joyce Dubliners 244 Three squads of bottles of stout and ale and minerals, drawn up according to the colours of their uniforms.

1940 T. S. Eliot East Coker v. 14 The general mess of imprecision of feeling Undisciplined squads of emotion.

1979 Notes & Queries Feb. 83/2 The only unforgiveable fault is the abbreviation of titles to unpronounceable squads of initials.

c. In the phrase in squads.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > state of being gathered together > in/into one place, company, or mass [phrase] > in groups

in squadsa1848

a1848 O. W. Holmes Stethoscope Song 64 They every day her ribs did pound In squads of twenty.

1852 J. L. Motley Let. 22 June in Corr. (1889) I. v. 132 People..making excursions into the country in small squads.

1869 J. E. T. Rogers Hist. Gleanings I. 84 In the Georgian era men and women were hanged in squads.

a. A particular set or circle of people.

ΘΚΠ

society > society and the community > social relations > association, fellowship, or companionship > a company or body of persons > [noun]

ferec975

flockOE

gingc1175

rout?c1225

companyc1300

fellowshipc1300

covinc1330

eschelec1330

tripc1330

fellowred1340

choira1382

head1381

glub1382

partya1387

peoplec1390

conventc1426

an abominable of monksa1450

body1453

carol1483

band1490

compernagea1500

consorce1512

congregationa1530

corporationa1535

corpse1534

chore1572

society1572

crew1578

string1579

consort1584

troop1584

tribe1609

squadron1617

bunch1622

core1622

lag1624

studa1625

brigadea1649

platoon1711

cohort1719

lot1725

corps1754

loo1764

squad1786

brotherhood1820

companionhood1825

troupe1825

crowd1840

companionship1842

group1845

that ilk1845

set-out1854

layout1869

confraternity1872

show1901

crush1904

we1927

familia1933

shower1936

1786 R. Burns Poems 77 The hairum-scairum, ram-stam boys, The rambling [1787 rattling] squad.

1809 B. H. Malkin tr. A. R. Le Sage Adventures Gil Blas I. iii. xi. 453 To study the feelings of authors..would only be the way to spoil them. I know that contemptible squad.

1818 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 3 533 Tho' used by Hunt, and Keats, and all that squad.

b. Sport (originally U.S.). A group of players forming a team or from which a team is chosen.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > sport > player or sportsperson > [noun] > team or group

side1545

team1834

active list1880

squad1902

active roster1915

pool1936

équipe1937

outfit1940

circus1958

dressing room1985

1902 Harvard Bull. 19 Mar. 2/2 The rest of the squad will leave the cage as soon as the ground is dry enough.

1920 W. Camp Football without Coach i. 17 A player should take the ball in his hands,..release it and pass it to the next player. This next man repeats the performance, and so it goes through the squad.

1950 Daily Ardmoreite (Ardmore, Okla.) 15 Jan. 14/3 It was the second loss of the season for the Tiger ‘A’ squad as the unbeaten Cougars took them 47 to 40.

1975 Cricketer May 4/1 Intikhab Alam..has been omitted from the squad of 19 from which the 14 will finally be chosen.

1981 G. Boycott In Fast Lane i. 7 Like everyone who has ever played or watched a cricket match I have my own views about the tour party—and I wouldn't have picked quite this squad.

c. A unit within a police force, organized to investigate or prevent a particular type of crime; frequently in elliptical use for flying squad n. at flying adj. 4e(b). See also fraud squad n. at fraud n. Compounds 1, murder squad n. at murder n.¹ and int. Compounds 2, riot squad n. at riot n. Compounds 1b, vice squad n. at vice n.¹ Compounds 2b at first element.

ΘΚΠ

society > law > law enforcement > police force or the police > [noun] > branch or part of police force

squad1905

serial1976

1905 N.Y. Times 22 June 8/6 Commissioner McAdoo selected yesterday the men for the special squad which will arrest women in the streets.

1928 E. Wallace Flying Squad xv. 132 You do your best, eh? You did your best to put Bradley away, and draw the attention of the Squad to you and me!

1938 F. D. Sharpe Sharpe of Flying Squad xxvi. 263 Jack, guy for your b—— life. The Squad are here and they're pinching everybody.

1939 ‘N. West’ Day of Locust xxvii. 221 A big squad of policemen was trying to keep a lane open between the front rank of the crowd and the façade of the theatre.

1962 Daily Tel. 15 June 22/5 Three detectives, two of them drug squad officers, flew to Gibralter from London yesterday to investigate the haul of illegal drugs found in the cruiser Belfast.

1980 Times 24 Jan. 5/3 Serious crime squads throughout Britain are searching for the inventor and manufacturer of a black box which contains a device that can reverse electricity meter readings.

Compounds

C1. General attributive.

squad barrel n.

ΚΠ

1864 Daily Tel. 14 Mar. A suttler..is dispensing beer from squad barrels to a knot of thirsty labourers.

squad car n.

ΘΚΠ

society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > powered vehicle > motor car > [noun] > police car

police cruiser1858

police car1881

prowl car1922

cruiser1929

unit1929

patrol car1931

scout car1933

squad car1938

Z-car1961

black and white1965

panda1966

squad1974

1938 F. D. Sharpe Sharpe of Flying Squad x. 120 A Squad car went down at once.

1956 D. G. Browne Rise of Scotl. Yard iii. xxv. 339 Squad cars, area cars, and ‘Q’ cars..kept in touch by wireless with the Information Room at Scotland Yard.

1970 G. F. Newman Sir, You Bastard iii. 109 Sneed parked behind the squad car, which had been directed via the information room.

squad-dance n.

ΚΠ

1865 E. Burritt Walk to Land's End 171 Inaugurating a new term of service with..squad-dances in the public street.

squad drill n.

ΚΠ

1891 Macmillan's Mag. Oct. 466/1 The best thing for them to do would be to go back to squad drill.

1899 T. S. Baldock Cromwell 24 The drill consisted of what we should now call ‘squad drill’.

squad instructor n.

ΚΠ

1859 Regulations for Musketry Instr. Army 46 The squad instructor opposite the 50 yards point.

squad leader n.

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > control > person in control > [noun] > leader > of a group

headstock1850

team leader1872

chef d'equipe1917

madrich1944

squad leader1953

1953 Amer. Speech 28 23 A special group is formed by these military words and phrases…squad, squad leader, and training.

1967 tr. Quotations from Chairman Mao Tsetung (ed. 2) 106 The secretary of a Party committee must be good at being a ‘squad leader’.

squad police n.

ΚΠ

1844 Queen's Regulations & Orders Army 121 In other Corps a Troop, Company, or Squad Police has been introduced.

squad room n.

ΘΚΠ

society > law > law enforcement > police force or the police > [noun] > police office or station > part of police station

charge room1853

interview room1889

squad room1946

grill room1958

information room1958

1946 Sun (Baltimore) 3 July 15/4 John Moynahan, lockup keeper at the town hall police station, was puzzled as he watched Midnight, the seven-year-old station cat, leap madly around the squadroom.

1981 W. Marshall Perfect End 5 [He] went through the lobby and into the squadroom.

C2.

squad bag n. (see quot. 1876).

ΚΠ

1864 E. A. Parkes Man. Pract. Hygiene 350 Squad bags are also issued to infantry, four to each company.

1876 G. E. Voyle & G. de Saint-Clair-Stevenson Mil. Dict. (ed. 3) 398/1 Squad Bags, canvas bags provided for troops (one for every 25 men), for the purpose of relieving a soldier from carrying a complete kit on the line of march or in the field.

Draft additions 1993

elliptical for squad car n. at Compounds 1. Police slang.

ΘΚΠ

society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > powered vehicle > motor car > [noun] > police car

police cruiser1858

police car1881

prowl car1922

cruiser1929

unit1929

patrol car1931

scout car1933

squad car1938

Z-car1961

black and white1965

panda1966

squad1974

1974 Amer. Speech 1971 46 78 Police sedan, police car, squad car, squad, prowl car.

1980 ‘A. Blaisdell’ Consequence of Crime (1981) x. 170 When he passed the last window he broke into a run, and dived for the squad on the passenger side.

1984 ‘D. Shannon’ Destiny of Death (1985) vii. 148 Bill Moss, riding a squad on night watch,..picked up a man lying against the curb in the street.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1915; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	squad
释义	squadn.¹ Brit. /skwɒd/, U.S. /skwɑd/ Etymology: < French escouade, earlier esquade (esquouade ), variant of esquadre squader n. 1. Military. a. A small number of men, a subdivision or section of a company, formed for drill or told off for some special purpose. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > armed forces > the Army > unit of army > [noun] > squad, platoon, section, etc. glub1382 scalec1400 platoon?a1547 maniple1574 squadron1579 squader1590 squadrant1614 file1616 squada1657 peloton1702 section1913 a1657 G. Daniel Trinarchodia: Henry V clxxxv, in Poems (1878) IV. 147 The Ragged Squad, whose Pay, ill-husbanded, Gives him nor Shooes nor Shirt. 1673 Reg. Privy Counc. Scotl. IV. 98 The commander of that squad of his Majesties troup of guardes, quartered at Bathgate. 1757 G. Washington Writings (1889) I. 468 Divide your men into as many squads as there are Sergeants. 1811 Gen. Regulations & Orders Army 244 The Commanding Officer will cause them, by Squads of 20 or more, to move round the Vessel in double quick time, each Squad for ten or twelve minutes. 1844 Queen's Regulations & Orders Army 133 The Subaltern Officers, to whom the Squads are entrusted, are responsible for the same to the Captain. 1877 Field Exercise Infantry (rev. ed.) 4 Recruits formed into a Squad should be directed to observe the relative places they hold with each other. b. awkward squad: (see quot. 1802). ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > armed forces > the Army > unit of army > [noun] > squad, platoon, section, etc. > type of awkward squad1796 ride1833 suicide squad1914 reaction force1923 society > armed hostility > warrior > soldier > soldier by type of service > [noun] > recruit > incompetent awkward squad1796 the world > action or operation > ability > inability > unskilfulness > [noun] > clumsiness or awkwardness > person > collectively awkward squad1796 1796 R. Burns in Wks. (1834) I. 344 John, don't let the awkward squad fire over me. 1802 C. James New Mil. Dict. (at cited word) The aukward squad consists not only of recruits at drill, but of formed soldiers that are ordered to exercise with them, in consequence of some irregularity under arms. 1842 T. B. Macaulay Frederic the Great in Ess. (1877) 659 The household regiments of Versailles and St. James's would have appeared an awkward squad. 1878 W. Besant & J. Rice By Celia's Arbour I. v. 68 The march and movement of troops,..the drill of the awkward squad, delighted his soul. in extended use.1797 S. James Narr. Voy. 205 The butchers here are a truly aukward squad.1816 J. Gilchrist Philos. Etymol. 204 They consider him as belonging to the awkward squad.1856 P. Thompson Hist. & Antiq. Boston, Lincoln Provincialisms They're a dirty squad, an awkward squad. c. Without article. ΚΠ 1792 Rules & Regulations His Majesty's Forces i. 3 In the manner..prescribed, must each recruit be trained..in squad. †2. = squadron n. 3. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > hostilities at sea > navy > a naval force or fleet > [noun] > squadron squadron1588 squader1590 squadrant1614 squad1673 1673 in 10th Rep. Royal Comm. Hist. MSS (1885) App. i. 80 On Monday the fleets ingadged;..a whole squad surroundit Sir Edward Sprag, who was in the Royal Prince. a1698 W. Row Contin. in R. Blair Life (1848) (modernized text) xii. 509 All that the King was able to do was to set out some squads of small ships. 3. a. A small number, group, or party of persons. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social relations > association, fellowship, or companionship > a company or body of persons > [noun] > small squad1809 the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > state of being gathered together > an assemblage or collection > [noun] > group > specifically of people eschelec1330 assortec1450 drift?c1450 flight1577 squader1590 squadron1617 group1711 platoon1711 squad1809 cuadrilla1838 clutch1908 1809 B. H. Malkin tr. A. R. Le Sage Adventures Gil Blas II. iv. ix. 184 In my mistress's female squad, there was a nymph named Portia. 1830 W. Scott Lett. Demonol. & Witchcraft ix. 284 The witches of Auldearn were so numerous that they were told off into squads, or covines. 1841 G. Catlin Lett. N. Amer. Indians I. xxiv. 201 The same intelligence was soon communicated by little squads to every family. 1856 E. K. Kane Arctic Explor. I. xx. 243 I cannot realize that some may not yet be alive; that some small squad or squads..may not have found a hunting-ground. b. Const. of. Also transferred and figurative. ΚΠ 1818 J. Keats Lett. in Wks. (1889) III. 115 I am in a high way of being introduced to a squad of people, Peter Pindar, Mrs. Opie, Mrs. Scott. 1822 W. Cobbett Rural Rides in Cobbett's Weekly Polit. Reg. 29 June 811 We saw..squads of labourers..migrating from tract to tract. 1857 G. Borrow Romany Rye II. xi. 160 He had a very shabby squad of animals, without soul or spirit. 1896 E. A. King Ital. Highways 91 A large squad of liveried servants. 1914 J. Joyce Dubliners 244 Three squads of bottles of stout and ale and minerals, drawn up according to the colours of their uniforms. 1940 T. S. Eliot East Coker v. 14 The general mess of imprecision of feeling Undisciplined squads of emotion. 1979 Notes & Queries Feb. 83/2 The only unforgiveable fault is the abbreviation of titles to unpronounceable squads of initials. c. In the phrase in squads. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > state of being gathered together > in/into one place, company, or mass [phrase] > in groups in squadsa1848 a1848 O. W. Holmes Stethoscope Song 64 They every day her ribs did pound In squads of twenty. 1852 J. L. Motley Let. 22 June in Corr. (1889) I. v. 132 People..making excursions into the country in small squads. 1869 J. E. T. Rogers Hist. Gleanings I. 84 In the Georgian era men and women were hanged in squads. 4. a. A particular set or circle of people. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social relations > association, fellowship, or companionship > a company or body of persons > [noun] ferec975 flockOE gingc1175 rout?c1225 companyc1300 fellowshipc1300 covinc1330 eschelec1330 tripc1330 fellowred1340 choira1382 head1381 glub1382 partya1387 peoplec1390 conventc1426 an abominable of monksa1450 body1453 carol1483 band1490 compernagea1500 consorce1512 congregationa1530 corporationa1535 corpse1534 chore1572 society1572 crew1578 string1579 consort1584 troop1584 tribe1609 squadron1617 bunch1622 core1622 lag1624 studa1625 brigadea1649 platoon1711 cohort1719 lot1725 corps1754 loo1764 squad1786 brotherhood1820 companionhood1825 troupe1825 crowd1840 companionship1842 group1845 that ilk1845 set-out1854 layout1869 confraternity1872 show1901 crush1904 we1927 familia1933 shower1936 1786 R. Burns Poems 77 The hairum-scairum, ram-stam boys, The rambling [1787 rattling] squad. 1809 B. H. Malkin tr. A. R. Le Sage Adventures Gil Blas I. iii. xi. 453 To study the feelings of authors..would only be the way to spoil them. I know that contemptible squad. 1818 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 3 533 Tho' used by Hunt, and Keats, and all that squad. b. Sport (originally U.S.). A group of players forming a team or from which a team is chosen. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > player or sportsperson > [noun] > team or group side1545 team1834 active list1880 squad1902 active roster1915 pool1936 équipe1937 outfit1940 circus1958 dressing room1985 1902 Harvard Bull. 19 Mar. 2/2 The rest of the squad will leave the cage as soon as the ground is dry enough. 1920 W. Camp Football without Coach i. 17 A player should take the ball in his hands,..release it and pass it to the next player. This next man repeats the performance, and so it goes through the squad. 1950 Daily Ardmoreite (Ardmore, Okla.) 15 Jan. 14/3 It was the second loss of the season for the Tiger ‘A’ squad as the unbeaten Cougars took them 47 to 40. 1975 Cricketer May 4/1 Intikhab Alam..has been omitted from the squad of 19 from which the 14 will finally be chosen. 1981 G. Boycott In Fast Lane i. 7 Like everyone who has ever played or watched a cricket match I have my own views about the tour party—and I wouldn't have picked quite this squad. c. A unit within a police force, organized to investigate or prevent a particular type of crime; frequently in elliptical use for flying squad n. at flying adj. 4e(b). See also fraud squad n. at fraud n. Compounds 1, murder squad n. at murder n.¹ and int. Compounds 2, riot squad n. at riot n. Compounds 1b, vice squad n. at vice n.¹ Compounds 2b at first element. ΘΚΠ society > law > law enforcement > police force or the police > [noun] > branch or part of police force squad1905 serial1976 1905 N.Y. Times 22 June 8/6 Commissioner McAdoo selected yesterday the men for the special squad which will arrest women in the streets. 1928 E. Wallace Flying Squad xv. 132 You do your best, eh? You did your best to put Bradley away, and draw the attention of the Squad to you and me! 1938 F. D. Sharpe Sharpe of Flying Squad xxvi. 263 Jack, guy for your b—— life. The Squad are here and they're pinching everybody. 1939 ‘N. West’ Day of Locust xxvii. 221 A big squad of policemen was trying to keep a lane open between the front rank of the crowd and the façade of the theatre. 1962 Daily Tel. 15 June 22/5 Three detectives, two of them drug squad officers, flew to Gibralter from London yesterday to investigate the haul of illegal drugs found in the cruiser Belfast. 1980 Times 24 Jan. 5/3 Serious crime squads throughout Britain are searching for the inventor and manufacturer of a black box which contains a device that can reverse electricity meter readings. Compounds C1. General attributive. squad barrel n. ΚΠ 1864 Daily Tel. 14 Mar. A suttler..is dispensing beer from squad barrels to a knot of thirsty labourers. squad car n. ΘΚΠ society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > powered vehicle > motor car > [noun] > police car police cruiser1858 police car1881 prowl car1922 cruiser1929 unit1929 patrol car1931 scout car1933 squad car1938 Z-car1961 black and white1965 panda1966 squad1974 1938 F. D. Sharpe Sharpe of Flying Squad x. 120 A Squad car went down at once. 1956 D. G. Browne Rise of Scotl. Yard iii. xxv. 339 Squad cars, area cars, and ‘Q’ cars..kept in touch by wireless with the Information Room at Scotland Yard. 1970 G. F. Newman Sir, You Bastard iii. 109 Sneed parked behind the squad car, which had been directed via the information room. squad-dance n. ΚΠ 1865 E. Burritt Walk to Land's End 171 Inaugurating a new term of service with..squad-dances in the public street. squad drill n. ΚΠ 1891 Macmillan's Mag. Oct. 466/1 The best thing for them to do would be to go back to squad drill. 1899 T. S. Baldock Cromwell 24 The drill consisted of what we should now call ‘squad drill’. squad instructor n. ΚΠ 1859 Regulations for Musketry Instr. Army 46 The squad instructor opposite the 50 yards point. squad leader n. ΘΚΠ society > authority > control > person in control > [noun] > leader > of a group headstock1850 team leader1872 chef d'equipe1917 madrich1944 squad leader1953 1953 Amer. Speech 28 23 A special group is formed by these military words and phrases…squad, squad leader, and training. 1967 tr. Quotations from Chairman Mao Tsetung (ed. 2) 106 The secretary of a Party committee must be good at being a ‘squad leader’. squad police n. ΚΠ 1844 Queen's Regulations & Orders Army 121 In other Corps a Troop, Company, or Squad Police has been introduced. squad room n. ΘΚΠ society > law > law enforcement > police force or the police > [noun] > police office or station > part of police station charge room1853 interview room1889 squad room1946 grill room1958 information room1958 1946 Sun (Baltimore) 3 July 15/4 John Moynahan, lockup keeper at the town hall police station, was puzzled as he watched Midnight, the seven-year-old station cat, leap madly around the squadroom. 1981 W. Marshall Perfect End 5 [He] went through the lobby and into the squadroom. C2. squad bag n. (see quot. 1876). ΚΠ 1864 E. A. Parkes Man. Pract. Hygiene 350 Squad bags are also issued to infantry, four to each company. 1876 G. E. Voyle & G. de Saint-Clair-Stevenson Mil. Dict. (ed. 3) 398/1 Squad Bags, canvas bags provided for troops (one for every 25 men), for the purpose of relieving a soldier from carrying a complete kit on the line of march or in the field. Draft additions 1993 elliptical for squad car n. at Compounds 1. Police slang. ΘΚΠ society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > powered vehicle > motor car > [noun] > police car police cruiser1858 police car1881 prowl car1922 cruiser1929 unit1929 patrol car1931 scout car1933 squad car1938 Z-car1961 black and white1965 panda1966 squad1974 1974 Amer. Speech 1971 46 78 Police sedan, police car, squad car, squad, prowl car. 1980 ‘A. Blaisdell’ Consequence of Crime (1981) x. 170 When he passed the last window he broke into a run, and dived for the squad on the passenger side. 1984 ‘D. Shannon’ Destiny of Death (1985) vii. 148 Bill Moss, riding a squad on night watch,..picked up a man lying against the curb in the street. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1915; most recently modified version published online March 2022). † squadn.² Forms: Also 1700s squod. Mining. Obsolete. rare. = shoad n. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > minerals > mineral sources > [noun] > indicators of presence mother of gold1596 show1600 shoad1602 squad1674 prospect1709 indication1855 showing1877 lode-light1883 indicator1894 1674 J. Ray Coll. Eng. Words 120 The tinners [in Cornwall] find the Mine by the Shoad (or as they call it Squad) which is loose stones of tin mixed with Earth. 1728 E. Chambers Cycl. at Shoaled Fragments of Ore, which by Rains, Currents of Water, &c. are torn off from the Load or Veins of Ore... Sometimes it is called Squad, and Squod. 1804 M. Edgeworth Lame Jervas ii, in Pop. Tales I. 7 ‘Loose ore of tin mixed with the earth, which in those days we used to call shoad or squad...’ ‘We call it squad to this day, master;’ interrupted one of the miners. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1915; most recently modified version published online March 2021). squadn.³ dialect. Soft slimy mud. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > earth or soil > mud > [noun] > thin or soft addleOE slougha1225 mirec1390 slurc1440 slurryc1440 sludge1702 slush1772 slop1796 slosh1808 stabble1821 sposh1836 sleck1840 flop1844 squad1847 slather1876 1847 in J. O. Halliwell Dict. Archaic & Provinc. Words 1880 Ld. Tennyson Northern Cobbler iv I coom'd neck-an-crop..down i' the squad an' the muck. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1915; most recently modified version published online June 2018). † squadadj. Etymology: Compare squab adj. and squat adj. Obsolete. rare. = squaddy adj. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > bodily height > shortness > [adjective] > and broad short shoulderedc1405 bunting1584 squaddy1593 chubby1611 truncheon1611 squat1630 squabbish1666 truss1674 squab1675 squad1675 stocky1676 punch1679 trunch1683 squat1688 stub1711 fodgel1724 thick-set1724 puddy1747 chunky1749 dumpy1750 squabby1754 knurly1758 clunch1776 trunchy1778 fubsy1780 punchy1780 humpty-dumpty1785 trunched1787 pudgy1788 fubby1790 runty1807 squattish1809 roly-poly1818 stumpy1822 hoddy-doddy1824 spuddya1825 hodmandod1825 stubby1831 podgy1832 fubsical1834 dumpty1847 fatling1847 stuggy1847 nuggety1856 cloddy1876 blocky1879 chumpy188. cobby1883 squidgy1891 stockish1913 pyknic1925 humpisha1935 1675 J. Covel Diary in J. T. Bent Early Voy. Levant (1893) 216 First there was a bastanjé, a middle-sized squad fellow, who shew a vast strength in tossing about weights. 1729 T. Cooke Tales 96 A short squad Figure, with a wadling Pace. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1915; most recently modified version published online March 2021). squadv. Brit. /skwɒd/, U.S. /skwɑd/ Etymology: < squad n.¹ 1. transitive. To divide or form into squads; to draw up in a squad. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > drill or training > drill [verb (transitive)] > divide into squads for training squad1841 1802 C. James New Mil. Dict. To Squad, to divide a troop or company into certain parts, in order to drill the men separately, or in small bodies. 1841 C. J. Lever Charles O'Malley lxxxvi. 416 I say, lads, squad your men and form on the road. 1884 Pall Mall Gaz. 16 July 8/2 A few Lancashire and metropolitan corps are squadded first this morning. 2. To assign or allocate to a squad. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > armed forces > the Army > unit of army > form unit of army [verb (transitive)] > allocate to a squad squad1802 1802 C. James New Mil. Dict. (at cited word) Recruits should always be quartered and squadded with old soldiers who are known to be steady and well behaved. 1802 C. James New Mil. Dict. (at cited word) The stables must like~wise be squadded entire; that is, no one stable must be allotted to two separate squads. Derivatives ˈsquadded adj. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > state of being gathered together > [adjective] > gathered in a group > like spec. legioned1653 squadroned1667 phalanxed1758 squadded1896 1896 Daily News 18 July 6/4 Three Squadded Competitions have been finished this evening. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1915; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.¹a1657n.²1674n.³1847adj.1675v.1802
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