[Fictionary] Squiz Ballot

[Nicolas Ward]

Sorry everyone! I completely lost track of this round. 2017 has been
busy, but no excuse!

Here's your ballot for squiz:

squiz, n. (fr. Chicago Croat dial.) A derogatory appellation for a
Slovenian-American.

squiz, n. A slipcover for a bed-warming stone.

squiz, n. A member of a heist team whose role is to distract the
bank's security guard with amusing or scandalous stories while the
other members enter.

squiz, v. To apply caulk or construction adhesive; n. 1. A cured
section of caulk or adhesive that has not adhered properly to the
surface(s) of application. 2. A bead of applied caulk or adhesive.

squiz, n. (chiefly Australian) A look; v. To look, examine.

squiz, n. A distracting maneuver performed by a pickpocket's
accomplice, developed in Barcelona; v. To perform this maneuver on (a
victim or mark).

squiz, n. Leftover whiskers, tails, etc. at a mouse factory.

squiz, n. The tail on an uppercase Q.

Squiz, n. Trade name of the metabolically inert sweetener revulose,
the antimatter analogue of sucrose, during a short-lived diet fad of
the 1970s.