Meaning of squick | Babel Free

Definitions

A source of individual psychological discomfort; something that repels one.

countable, slang, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“HEY!!!! This goes a little too far for even me! Applicable nanotechnology like that won't happen until at least 3 years from now and nuclear = squick in my book.”

“since it is pretty hard to find two people on such pics in the proper positions i ask those of you interested in the creation of this to keep yer eyes open for good source material. send me anything... suggestions, own ideas of how the squick should look like (het, gay, lesb (with plastic dildo or something)), reactions to this idea, material, whatever...”

“nostril squick. I think I'd want a bigger ball..”

“One man's turn-on is another's squick. But, if she chickened out now, the whole plan would fall apart.”

“We maintain, as you did in your time, the cultural squick about internal interfaces with networked machinery, and about data capture, for obvious reasons.”

“I don’t recommend doing so, I am reasonably certain there is enough squick in those pictures to get us on some kind of watchlist.”

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