squeak
IPA: skwˈik
noun
- (countable) A short, high-pitched sound, as of two objects rubbing together, or the sounds made by mice and other small animals.
- (uncountable, games) A card game similar to group solitaire.
- (countable, slang) A narrow squeak.
verb
- (intransitive) To emit a short, high-pitched sound.
- (intransitive, slang) To inform, to squeal.
- (transitive) To speak or sound in a high-pitched manner.
- (intransitive, games) To empty the pile of 13 cards a player deals to oneself in the card game of the same name.
- (intransitive, informal) To win or progress by a narrow margin.
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Examples of "squeak" in Sentences
- At what time did it squeak
- The squeaking wheel gets the grease.
- That would make a squeaking noise too.
- Sometimes it makes odd squeaking noises.
- The car squeaked in the middle of the night.
- It communicates by squeaking or with ultra sound.
- That awful _squeak, squeak, squeak_ continues day and night.
- They can also make a repetitive quieter whistling or squeaking noise.
- They make squeaking and grunting noises when they are scared or fighting.
- The Bursar's company, although quite harmless, had a habit of making one's brain squeak.
- And your sister-in-law, I think all she knows of you is the squeak, that is what I was saying before.
- He said in a squeaking little voice, intended to be jocose and satirical, shaking his head as he rode.
- I. Day, tall, and thin, and gaunt, with a hatchet face, who looked as if a squeak was his vocal limit, had
- Fresh curds are usually buttery and mildly sour in flavor, and springy in texture with a tell-tale "squeak" when you bite into them.
- The plane is decked out with a comfy bed with springs that do not squeak, which is more more comfortable than fumbling around in a cubicle the size of a broom cupboard.
- With all this talk about getting rid of the current Stop & Search form I still haven’t heard a squeak from the usual suspects in reply and in defence of the Macpherson led initiative.
- And there are even languages/environments meant to be easy to use and learn, such as squeak, which coincidentally ships with the OLPC program – since one of the main OLPC guys is one of the main squeak guys.
- Video is one of the killer apps of the rich internet applications, even if they every now and again squeak that this isn’t supposed to be that, that it’s supposed to be a cross platform development environment – people will want to watch youtube on their phones, too.
- It's best to use the OLPC etoys image of etoys squeak, which is now superior to the version on the squeakland site: install instructions here This tutorial matches the OLPC image version of etoys, it would be hard to follow all the detail of it if using the Squeakland version.