squeaker
IPA: skwˈikɝ
noun
- One who or that which squeaks.
- (Internet slang) A young user on a voice chat system who has a high-pitched voice.
- A party toy that uncoils with a squeaking sound when blown; a party puffer.
- (slang) An informer.
- (US) A game or election won by a narrow margin.
- An animal that squeaks.
- An Australian grey crow-shrike or grey currawong (Strepera versicolor plumbea).
- A piglet of the wild boar.
- Any of family Arthroleptidae, of frogs.
- Any of genus Synodontis, of catfish.
- A young bird; a cheeper.
- A squab or young domestic pigeon still in the nest.
- (slang) An act of flatulence; a fart.
- (slang) A child, especially an illegitimate one.
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Examples of "squeaker" in Sentences
- The final tally showed a squeaker.
- You missed a great game last night. Real squeaker.
- Smolin seems to be a squeaker even in my liberal mind.
- In a low scoring contest, the 49ers lost in a squeaker.
- His squeaker used to be broken, but Andy's mom fixed it.
- You can see Squeaker, our orange tabby, in the top left.
- Three months later, even in a special this was a squeaker.
- That is a squeaker of a majority, and not consensus by any means.
- But the monster got me when I fell and the 'squeaker' was broken.
- I escaped its lure at first because of the 'squeaker' I carried with me.
- Otherwise, even if he wins in a "squeaker," he's proven that he's teflon.
- The third type of coaxial speaker is the tweeter, also known as the squeaker.
- But in the end, there was no repeat of the single vote squeaker win of May 19.
- That's not a "squeaker" -- it's not a huge margin, but it was absolutely decisive.
- It's going to be a "squeaker" and I just don't see Pennington turning it over like he did last time when we beat him.
- It was known as a "squeaker" because of the constant din it made while in use; the noise would cease only when radium was within a hundred feet of the mechanism.
- So even though we've told you this is going to be a squeaker, that is House Speaker Nancy Pelosi saying that we are going to have the votes for this when it comes down to it, Don.
- Although embodying a very ancient principle -- the "squeaker" reed which our little children still make, and continued in the Egyptian arghool -- the clarinet is the most recent member of the wood wind band.
- Each drone is fitted with a beating-reed resembling the primitive "squeaker" known to all country lads; it is prepared by making a cut partly across a piece of cane or reed, near the open end, and splitting back from this towards a joint or knot, thus raising a tongue or flap.