Squib

The much anticipated new theatre production was unfortunately a bit of a damp squib in the end.

Russian fall offensive, ongoing now, so far, is a damp squib.

English Navy squibs set fire to two dozen enemy ships in a Dutch harbor during the 16th-century battle against the Spanish Armada.

The making and selling of fireworks and squibs, or throwing them about on any street, is […] punishable by fine.

Ye nevvs-paper vvitlings! ye pert ſcribbling folks! / VVho copied his ſquibs, and re-echoed his jokes, […]

Of the dozen or so surviving articles, squibs, and letters to the editor, the most remarkable appeared in the Whip and Satirist’s February 12, 1842, issue, and disclosed the existence of a cabal of gay men in New York's otherwise wholesome nightscape of brothels and riots.

November 1, 1709, Richard Steele, The Tatler The squibs are those who in the common phrase of the world are called libellers, lampooners, and pamphleteers.

In this squib I will prove that the number of possible metrical parsings into feet under these assumptions […]

Its a hard case when men of good deserving / must either driven be perforce to sterving / or asked for their pas by everie squib.

I'm putting my foot down, Janelle. We're raising a nation of squibs!