Squibs, paint-brushes.
Squiffy, slightly inebriated.
Squinny-eyed, said of one given to squinting.—Shakspeare.
Squirt, a doctor, or chemist.
Squish, common term among University men for marmalade.
Stab, “Stab yourself and pass the dagger,” help yourself and pass the bottle.—Theatrical Slang.
Stab, “on the STAB,” i.e., paid by regular weekly wages on the “establishment,” of which word STAB is an abridgment.—Printer’s term.
Stab-rag, a regimental tailor.—Military Slang.
Stag, a shilling.
Stag, a term applied during the railway mania to a speculator without capital, who took “scrip” in proposed lines, got the shares up to a premium, and then sold out. Caricaturists represented the house of Hudson, “the Railway King,” at Albert Gate, with a STAG on it, in allusion to this term.