Verb

(head)

(squeak)

Verb

(en verb)

To emit a short, high-pitched sound.

* '>citation

(slang) To inform, to squeal.

* Dryden

If he be obstinate, put a civil question to him upon the rack, and he squeaks , I warrant him.

To speak or sound in a high-pitched manner.

(games) To empty the pile of 13 cards a player deals to themself in the card game of the same name.

(informal) To win or progress by a narrow margin.

* 1999 , Surfer (volume 40, issues 7-12)

allowing Parkinson to squeak into the final by a half-point margin.

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, year=2011 , date=October 23 , author=Tom Fordyce , title=2011 Rugby World Cup final: New Zealand 8-7 France , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=France were transformed from the feeble, divided unit that had squeaked past Wales in the semi-final, their half-backs finding the corners with beautifully judged kicks from hand, the forwards making yards with every drive and a reorganised Kiwi line-out beginning to malfunction.}}

Verb

(head)

(archaic) (quake)

* 1822 , Blackwood's Edinburgh magazine: Volume 11 (page 591)

In corroboration of such terrific doings of nature, and to shew that the solid earth must have quoke from its foundation, up comes the cook from the kitchen, solemnly swearing by her sole and flounder, that the very spit shook, and every pan clattered.