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Squid Game season 2
Squid Game season 2 (오징어 게임 2, Squid Game 2): second season of the Korean Netflix survival thriller, released December 26, 2024 in seven episodes; Gi-hun returns, the Front Man infiltrates as Young-il, 192.6 million views.
Squid Game season 3
Squid Game season 3 (오징어 게임 시즌 3) is the six-episode final season of Netflix's Korean survival drama, released June 27, 2025. It set debut records with 60.1 million views in three days, topped charts in 93 countries, and drew divided reviews.
Squid Game: The Challenge
Squid Game: The Challenge is a Netflix reality competition series, greenlit June 2022, in which 456 players compete for $4.56 million; Season 1 premiered November 22, 2023, Season 2 in November 2025, won by Perla Figuereo.
Squid giant axon
Squid giant axon (Loligo giant nerve fiber): an unmyelinated axon up to 1 mm wide driving squid escape jetting at 10–20 m/s; the preparation of the 1952 Hodgkin–Huxley action potential model and 1963 Nobel Prize.
Squid giant synapse
Squid giant synapse: large glutamatergic synapse in the squid stellate ganglion's giant fiber system (escape circuit), classical preparation that established calcium-triggered, quantal, nanodomain-coupled neurotransmitter release.
SQUID magnetometry
SQUID magnetometry measures a sample's magnetic moment with a superconducting quantum interference device, the most sensitive magnetic flux detector, combining flux quantization and Josephson tunneling.
Squid ring teeth protein
Squid ring teeth protein is the family of silk-like proteins called suckerins that form the hard gripping teeth in squid and cuttlefish suckers, entirely without minerals.
SQUID-on-tip microscopy
SQUID-on-tip microscopy, or SOT, is a scanning probe technique that images magnetic fields, currents, and heat dissipation at the nanoscale using a nanoSQUID on a sharp tip.
Squid-sucker adhesive patch
A squid-sucker adhesive patch is a bioinspired medical adhesive that borrows squid sucker ring teeth or cephalopod suction-cup architecture to bond to wet, soft tissue.
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.