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Squidbillies
Squidbillies is an Adult Swim animated series by Dave Willis and Jim Fortier (2005–2021, 13 seasons, 132 episodes) about the Cuyler squid family of Dougal County, Georgia; Early Cuyler was voiced by Unknown Hinson.
Squidgygate
Squidgygate, also Dianagate: the recorded 1989 New Year's Eve phone call between Diana, Princess of Wales, and James Gilbey, published in August 1992; its origin, attributed to GCHQ, remains disputed.
Squidward Tentacles
Squidward Tentacles is the grumpy octopus cashier of the Krusty Krab in SpongeBob SquarePants (1999), voiced by Rodger Bumpass; despite the name he is a giant Pacific octopus drawn with six limbs for easier animation.
Squier
Squier is Fender's budget brand of electric guitars, basses, and acoustic instruments, begun as V.C. Squier's 1890 string company and acquired by Fender in 1965.
Squilla mantis
Squilla mantis, spottail mantis shrimp (galera ocelada), a Mediterranean burrowing stomatopod crustacean; the only commercially fished mantis shrimp there, over 7,000 t caught yearly, 85% from Italian Adriatic waters.
Squircle
A squircle is a closed plane curve between a square and a circle, with continuously varying corner curvature, defined as a superellipse with exponent 4.
Squire Booker
Squire J. Booker is an American mechanistic enzymologist known for radical SAM enzymes, an HHMI investigator since 2015, elected to the NAS in 2019, now at Penn.
Squirrel
Squirrel, family Sciuridae: about 279 rodent species in 51 genera across five subfamilies, spanning tree, ground, and gliding flying squirrels; native worldwide except Australia, Antarctica, and southern South America; oldest fossil Douglassciurus, 35 million years old.
Squirrel and G-Man Twenty Four Hour Party People Plastic Face Carnt Smile (White Out)
Squirrel and G-Man Twenty Four Hour Party People Plastic Face Carnt Smile (White Out) is Happy Mondays' 1987 debut album on Factory Records (FACT 170), produced by John Cale; early pressings carried "Desmond", later replaced by "24 Hour Party People".
Squirrel Girl
Squirrel Girl, also called Doreen Green or The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl, is a Marvel Comics superheroine created by Will Murray and Steve Ditko in the early 1990s; she speaks with squirrels, has a tail and knuckle spikes, and famously defeats Doctor Doom, Thanos, and Galactus.
Squirrel McNutt
Squirrel McNutt, real name George Siciliano (also LS George), is an American YouTuber and ARCA stock car driver, Cleetus McFarland's partner, who debuted in ARCA East at Hickory in March 2026.
Squirrel monkey
Squirrel monkeys (genus Saimiri) are small New World monkeys of South and Central American tropical forests. Known for female-dominant troops up to 300, Pleistocene diversification 1.4–0.6 Ma, disputed taxonomy, and wide use in neuroscience research.
Squirrel Nut Zippers
Squirrel Nut Zippers, a North Carolina hot jazz and swing revival band formed in 1993 by Jimbo Mathus and Katharine Whalen, known for the platinum 1996 album Hot and the single "Hell," and active again since their 2008 revival.
Squirrel search algorithm
The squirrel search algorithm (SSA) is a nature-inspired metaheuristic for continuous and engineering optimization, introduced by Mohit Jain, Vijander Singh, and Asha Rani in 2018.
Squirrel-cage induction motor
A squirrel-cage induction motor is an AC electric motor whose rotor has conducting bars short-circuited by end rings; it is the most widely used industrial electric motor.
Squirrel-cage rotor
A squirrel-cage rotor is the rotating part of an induction motor, where conductive bars in a steel core, shorted by end rings, carry induced currents that produce torque.
Squirrels in a Plane Tree
Squirrels in a Plane Tree is an early 17th-century Mughal miniature painting attributed to the court artist Abu'l Hasan, held in the British Library, London, since 1807.
Squirt
Squirt is an English verb and noun for ejecting liquid in a forceful jet from a narrow opening, also a syringe; fifteenth-century imitative origin; slang senses include a small, impudent person, squirt gun, and the sexual term squirting.
Squirtle (ゼニガメ)
Squirtle (ゼニガメ, Zenigame) is the #007 Water-type Tiny Turtle Pokémon, a Kanto starter in Red/Blue/FireRed/LeafGreen. Evolves to Wartortle at 16 and Blastoise at 36; base stat total 314, abilities Torrent and Rain Dish.
Squish (piston engine)
Squish is the radial inward flow of gas in a piston engine, generated as the rising piston squeezes charge from a narrow clearance near top dead center.
Squonk
The Squonk (Lacrimacorpus dissolvens) is a fearsome critter of Pennsylvania lumberjack folklore, first documented in William T. Cox's 1910 Fearsome Creatures of the Lumberwoods: a warty, weeping creature that dissolves into tears when caught, retold by Tryon, Borges, Genesis, and Steely Dan.
SQZ Biotechnologies
SQZ Biotechnologies Co was a clinical-stage cell therapy company spun out of MIT in 2013, known for its Cell Squeeze microfluidic platform and HPV cancer vaccines.
SR (Korean rail operator)
SR is a South Korean public corporation that ran SRT high-speed trains from Suseo Station in Seoul, launched in 2016 as Korea's second high-speed rail operator before merging with KORAIL in 2026.
SR 12 AB
SR 12 AB is a young K4+M2.5 T Tauri binary in the rho Ophiuchus cloud, about 125 pc away, hosting SR 12 AB c, a directly imaged 13-Jupiter-mass companion at roughly 1000 au with an ALMA-detected circumplanetary disk.
SR protein
SR proteins (SRSF1-12) are conserved serine/arginine-rich RNA-binding splicing factors with RRM and RS domains that regulate splice-site choice, mRNA export, translation, and NMD, and drive cancer when misregulated.
SR West Country and Battle of Britain classes
The SR West Country and Battle of Britain classes, known as the Bulleid light pacifics, were 110 British 4-6-2 steam locomotives built between 1945 and 1951.
SR-2 Veresk
The SR-2 Veresk (СР-2 «Вереск») is a Russian submachine gun developed by TsNIITochMash for the FSB and adopted in 2000 to pierce body armor with the 9×21mm cartridge.
SR-22 (insurance)
An SR-22, also called Form SR-22, is a certificate of financial responsibility an auto insurer files with a state agency to prove a driver carries minimum liability insurance.
SR-25
The SR-25, also known as the Stoner Rifle-25, is a semi-automatic 7.62mm NATO precision rifle designed by Eugene Stoner and made by Knight's Armament Company in the early 1990s.
SR-3 Vikhr (СР-3 Вихрь)
The SR-3 Vikhr is a Russian compact assault rifle firing the subsonic 9x39mm cartridge, adopted in 1996 by the FSB and Ministry of Internal Affairs.