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Added a section for grammar and usage after the definitions sections. This was added to assist language learners in being able to use the word correctly.
Squick: In the past called "gross-out" fics, where reader is supposed to be made sick by what they are reading, or disturbed. Think seeing Grandma naked in shower masturbating. Usually associated with comedic stories. Everything that happens to Jim in the American Pie movies is squick.<ref>[https://fanthropology.livejournal.com/260826.html/ Livejournal post] by [[yenesi]]. Posted on August 15, 2006. Accessed on August 13, 2018. [https://web.archive.org/web/20151106123009/http://fanthropology.livejournal.com/260826.html/ Archived] on November 6, 2015.</ref>
Squick: In the past called "gross-out" fics, where reader is supposed to be made sick by what they are reading, or disturbed. Think seeing Grandma naked in shower masturbating. Usually associated with comedic stories. Everything that happens to Jim in the American Pie movies is squick.<ref>[https://fanthropology.livejournal.com/260826.html/ Livejournal post] by [[yenesi]]. Posted on August 15, 2006. Accessed on August 13, 2018. [https://web.archive.org/web/20151106123009/http://fanthropology.livejournal.com/260826.html/ Archived] on November 6, 2015.</ref>
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==Grammar and Usage==
The word ''squick'' can be used as either a noun or a verb.
The plural of squick is squicks.
'''Example:'''
* I love reading A/B/O, but it's one of my friend's squicks, so I never rec those fics to her.
The conjugation of squick is squick/squicked/squicked. Squick is often used in phrasal verb form with the preposition 'out'. When used as a phrasal verb, it is separable.
'''Examples:'''
* This fic is great, but I got super squicked in chapter 5. You'll love it, though!
* I'd love to beta for you, but that ship just squicks me out. Hit me up next time?
==The Differences Between [[Triggers]] and Squicks==
==The Differences Between [[Triggers]] and Squicks==
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==Meta/Further Reading==
==Meta/Further Reading==