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can of squelch

an inside joke in the U.S. military played on 'Boots' (newly arrived from boot camp).

squelch is a term used to fine-tune radios. it is a knob or button that controls whether or not background noise is heard on an open channel. it is used when communication is poor or lost and you are scanning your frequency/channel for any recognizable sounds.

telling someone to get a 'can' of squelch sends them to go ask someone, causing everyone who knows the joke to laugh. this is not always wise to send a boot to a Senior NCO for.
0311: hey Boot!

Boot: "Corporal?"

0311: "go down to supply and get a can of squelch. this radio's been acting up all morning and i can't get comm."

Boot goes to supply, waits in line, and then gets yelled at for wasting supply's time and their own. Usually ends with the Boot cleaning something unimaginable or guarding something insignificant for long, long, periods of time.
by Marines is capitalized January 22, 2011
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squildo

A squildo is a guy in an office setting who never learned how to use his inside voice, most likely dresses like a queen during the weekends, and wants everyone to know how great he is at life.
Jake is on a call right now and is acting like a total squildo.
by Rizzou19 September 10, 2013
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squelf

To be assaulted by a person at least 8 inches shorter than you, or to assault a person at least 8 inches taller than you.
"If he puts his hands on his knees to talk to me one more time I'm going to give him the squelfing of his life!"

"Man, I just got squelfed the other day!"
by Juice Box Jerry September 21, 2017
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Squallot

A combination of a a long and thin penis.
Today my squallot is looking like straw.
by Spurde October 10, 2021
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dick squelch

The noise made when you are in the bath and you "take care of yourself" above the water, but some water has got into your foreskin so it squelches, this is usually done instead of below water as the splashing noise usually gives it away, however dick squelches are even more obvious then below water "dick splashes".
"Alex, whats that noise? are you dick squelching" "no mum!"
by analex127 January 23, 2009
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squillion

A word which can be used to indicate a large amount of some thing. Much larger than a million but smaller than a zillion
I've got a squillion tadpoles in my garden.
There must be a squillion ants in my undies!
by ~*~Ambz~*~ April 18, 2006
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squalay

Term used to describe the Police coming, used primarily when partaking in illegal activity, such as a dice game, or smoking weed.

Yelling 'squalay' does not necessarily mean to run, it's totally situation dependant. If you're playing a dice game, and someone yells 'squalay!', just pick up the dice and cool out, if you just did the armed robbery thing, you better get ghost.
Three young gentlemen are jumping someone, and trying to take his chain...

One of the three men sees the cops before his friends.

He says: 'Squalay!'

All three gentlemen run, hopefully after acquiring the chain.
by James Jackson, from B-lo August 10, 2006
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