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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Squeaker

Squeaker \Squeak"er\ (-[~e]r), n.

  1. One who, or that which, squeaks.

  2. (Zo["o]l.) The Australian gray crow shrike ( Strepera anaphonesis); -- so called from its note.

    1. A contest won by a small margin.

    2. A narrow escape from harm. [Colloq.]

Wiktionary
squeaker

n. 1 One who or that which squeaks. 2 # (cx internet slang English) A young user on a voice chat system who has a high-pitched voice. 3 A party toy that uncoils with a squeaking sound when blown; a party puffer. 4 (context slang English) An informer. 5 (context US English) A game or election won by a narrow margin. 6 An animal that squeaks. 7 # The (vern: Australian gray crow shrike) ((taxlink Strepera anaphonesis species noshow=1)). 8 # ''(taxlink Arthroleptidae family noshow=1)'', a frog family. 9 # (taxlink Synodontis genus noshow=1), a catfish genus.

WordNet
squeaker
  1. n. any artifact that makes a squeaking sound when used; "those sneakers are squeakers"; "which hinge is the squeaker?"

  2. something achieved (or escaped) by a narrow margin [syn: close call, close shave, squeak, narrow escape]

Wikipedia
Squeaker

Squeaker may refer to:

  • Arthroleptidae, a frog family
  • Squeaker (fish), Synodontis, a catfish genus
  • The Squeaker (disambiguation), multiple uses
  • Squeaker, another name for a party horn

Usage examples of "squeaker".

Barkley, midshipman, one of the younger squeakers, and Joshua Spense, the Kingston man.

Think of dogs, with all the different sizes and shapes and breeds they come in, and yet theyre all Canis familiaris, from a palmpup squeaker to a Nordanian riding hound.

Israel Edel gave me a rubber ice-cream cone with a squeaker in it&mdash.

Israel Edel gave me a rubber ice-cream cone with a squeaker in it - a plaything for my little dog, who is a female Lhasa apso, a golden dust-mop without a handle.

They reached the door behind a party of people blowing I squeakers, wearing party hats, and making a lot of noise.

Beside them were half a dozen towels, the loofah, the pumice stone, the soap, the soap for when the first soap got lost, the ladle for fishing spiders out, the waterlogged rubber duck with the prolapsed squeaker, the bunion chisel, the big scrubbing brush, the small scrubbing brush, the scrubbing brush on a stick for difficult crevices, the banjo, the thing with the pipes and spigots that no one ever really knew the purpose of, and a bottle of Klatchian Nights bath essence, one drop of which could crinkle paint.