How to pronounce "squids"

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Squids have a an extremely complex,

interesting sex life.

Here you see a male and a female.

The male, on the left, has been fighting off other males

to pair with the female, and now he's showing a dual pattern.

He shows courtship and love on her side, fighting on the other.

Watch him when she shifts places --

and you see that he has fluidly changed the love-courtship pattern

to the side of the female.

So this kind of dual signaling simultaneously

with a changing behavioral context is really extraordinary.

It takes a lot of brain power.

Definition of "squids"

Noun

Any of several carnivorous marine cephalopod mollusks, of the order Teuthida, having a mantle, eight arms, and a pair of tentacles
A fishhook with a piece of bright lead, bone, or other substance fastened on its shank to imitate a squid.
(mildly) A sailor in the Navy.
A quid; one pound sterling.

Example: "Can you lend me five squid? I feel like a bacon sarnie."

Verb

To fish with the kind of hook called a squid.
(parachuting) To cause squidding (an improper, partial, parachute inflation, that results in the sides of the parachute folding in on the center, and pulsating back and forth).

Noun

A motorcyclist, especially a sport biker, characterized by reckless riding and lack of protective gear.

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