squad
part of speech
noun (a squad, squads)
meaning for a pupil
1) A squad is a small group of people who work or train together, especially a sports team or a group of soldiers or police. tree →
2) A squad is the full group of players a coach can choose a team from. tree →
3) (slang) Your squad is your group of close friends: «me and my squad». tree →
sense in the lessons
In PE and sport, the school football squad trains together and the coach picks the team from the squad. In news and police stories: «the bomb squad», «the drugs squad», «a firing squad». In slang, «squad goals» means a friend group to admire. Phrases: «the school squad», «make the squad», «squad training», «bomb squad», «flying squad».
examples
- I made the netball squad this year! tree →
- The coach named an eighteen-player squad for the final. tree →
- Squad training is on Tuesday after school. tree →
- The bomb squad made the old shell safe. tree →
- A squad of soldiers marched past. tree →
- Me and my squad are going to the park. tree →
- The whole squad cheered when Amira scored. tree →
note
Countable: «a squad, two squads». In British English a squad can take a plural verb: «the squad are training». A squad is usually bigger than a team on the pitch: the team is the players who actually play. Slang sense is informal.
In the corpora
- The whole squad heard his mum, from the bottom of the stairs, at full volume: «OLLIE!
- Mia's squad kept losing because all four of them wanted to be the sniper and nobody wanted to heal anyone.
- The next day the squad played without him, and nobody said why, because nobody had to.
- Kai's squad reported him, and a few days later he was banned.
- The squad stopped believing him.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «squad» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.