squawk
IPA: skwˈɔk
noun
- A shrill noise, especially made by a voice or bird; a yell, scream, or call.
- (aviation) A four-digit transponder code used by aircraft for identification or transmission of emergency signals.
- (informal) A complaint or objection.
- (aviation) An issue or complaint related to aircraft maintenance.
- The American night heron.
- (programming, informal) A warning message indicating a possible error.
verb
- To make a squawking noise; to yell, scream, or call out shrilly.
- (slang, intransitive) To speak out; to protest.
- (slang, intransitive) To report an infraction; to rat on or tattle; to disclose a secret.
- (programming, intransitive, informal) To produce a warning message, indicating a possible error.
- (aviation) To set or transmit a four-digit transponder code. (Normally followed by the specific code in question.)
- (US, slang, dated) To back out in a mean way.
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Examples of "squawk" in Sentences
- No twits of squirrels, not a squawk from the tops of the trees.
- Warren opened his mouth to respond, but a sudden squawk from the boat’s intercom made him stop.
- These four items are what everyone is talking about, but not much of a bark nor squawk from the mainstream media.
- All of our cars and most shepherds’ mobile phones have inside them an electronic device we call a squawk box, which periodically transmits a fake phone call that’s encrypted but traceable.
- The criminal convictions of three former stockbrokers and three former members of a defunct day-trading firm's management will stand in a plot to misuse brokerage firm "squawk" boxes, a judge has ruled.
- U.S. prosecutors were chided by a federal judge on Thursday for withholding information from six former Wall Street brokers and traders who were convicted last year in a scheme to misuse brokerage-firm "squawk" boxes.
- More thankfully still, when it does, Lincoln's first question to me the next morning is whether I was able to help the person I was trying to save, and when I say no, as I usually do, he gives me a squawk, which is what they call a hug on "SpongeBob", and tells me he hopes I have better luck next time.
- The singing was bad enough - she sounded like an angry wasp trapped in a shoebox, butchering melodies with the ghoulish efficiency of Jeffrey Dahmer – but even though she no longer bursts into song, her incessant piercing squawk is still enough to make me want to slice my ears off and hurl them into another dimension.
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