squeak
/skwiːk/
squeak noun: a short, high-pitched sound, as of two objects rubbing together, or the sounds made by mice and other small animals.
Noun
squeak (countable and uncountable, plural squeaks)
- A short, high-pitched sound, as of two objects rubbing together, or the sounds made by mice and other small animals.
- A card game similar to group solitaire.
- A narrow squeak.
- "I had the very devil of a squeak for it," he went on. "I did the hurdles over two or three garden-walls, but so did the flyer who was on my tracks, and he drove me back into the straight and down to High Street like any lamplighter. […]1905, E. W. Hornung, A Thief in the Night
Verb
squeak (third-person singular simple present squeaks, present participle squeaking, simple past and past participle squeaked)
- To emit a short, high-pitched sound.
- But I must warn you that chipboard floors are always likely to squeak. The material is still being used in new-builds, but developers now use adhesive to bed and joint it, rather than screws or nails. I suspect the adhesive will eventually embrittle and crack, resulting in the same squeaking...2014 August 17, Jeff Howell, “Home improvements: Repairing and replacing floorboards [print version: Never buy anything from a salesman, 16 August 2014, p. P7]”, in The Daily Telegraph (Property)
- To inform, to squeal.
- If he be obstinate, put a civil question to him upon the rack, and he squeaks, I warrant him.1690, [John] Dryden, Don Sebastian, King of Portugal: […], London: […] Jo. Hindmarsh, […], →OCLC, (please specify the page number)
- Synonyms:
- drop a dime
- To speak or sound in a high-pitched manner.
- To empty the pile of 13 cards a player deals to oneself in the card game of the same name.
- To win or progress by a narrow margin.
- […] allowing Parkinson to squeak into the final by a half-point margin.1999, Surfer, volume 40, numbers 7-12
- 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.2011 October 23, Tom Fordyce, “2011 Rugby World Cup final: New Zealand 8-7 France”, in BBC Sport
- Antonyms:
- romp
Proper noun capitalized: Squeak
Squeak
- The British War Medal.
squeak meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali
squeak in Hindi
- squeak
- चीख़ cīx
squeak in Tamil
- short, high-pitched sound
- கீச்சு kīccu
- emit sound
- கீச்சிடு kīcciṭu
- inform
- சொல் col
squeak in Urdu
- squeak; peep
- چوں cū̃
squeak in Bengali
- চিঁ চিঁ শব্দ করা
More languagesFewer languages
- squeak in Malayalam
- സന്ദർഭം
- squeak in Kannada
- ಚೀರು, ಕಿರಿಚು, ಚೀರಿಡು, ಅರಚು
- squeak in Tagalog
- irit
- squeak in Arabic
- صَرِير ṣarīr, صَرَّ ṣarra
- squeak in Indonesian
- cicit, decit, mencicit, berdecit
- squeak in Vietnamese
- chít chít
Examples of squeak in a sentence
- When the new baby's rubber duck squeaked at the wedding, hilarity ensued.
- They replaced the entire door, in hopes of correcting the sticking and squeaking once and for all.
- The door opened with a crusty squeak that echoed in the silent room.
Synonyms of squeak
Antonyms
Forms of squeak
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | squeaks |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | squeaks |
| present participle | squeaking |
| past participle | squeaked |
| past | squeaked |
Origin of squeak
An allusion to the newspaper cartoon strip Pip, Squeak and Wilfred.
Words formed from squeak
Phrases with squeak
Words that rhyme with squeak
48 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- leak
- seek
- bespeak
- pique
- tweak
- reek
- sleek
- geek
- peek
- week
- wreak
- boutique
- clique
- creek
- forspeak
- gleek
- unique
- bleak
- cacique
- creak
- critique
- deke
- eek
- eke
- fleak
- on fleek
- respeak
- Tajik
- teak
- technique
- tongue-in-chic
- chic
- cleek
- desqueak
- leek
- malik
- meek
- midweek
- misspeak
- physique
- pratique
- shriek
- speke
- streek
- Zeke
- -speak
- Adam's Peak
- advertique
Questions about squeak
- What does squeak mean?
- Squeak means a short, high-pitched sound, as of two objects rubbing together, or the sounds made by mice and other small animals.
- What is squeak in Hindi?
- Squeak in Hindi is चीख़ (cīx). See Squeak meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is squeak?
- Squeak can be a noun, a verb or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce squeak?
- Squeak is pronounced /skwiːk/.
- What is the plural of squeak?
- The plural of squeak is squeaks.
Words near squeak in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: squeak (page history and authors); Squeak (page history and authors); चीख़ (Hindi) (page history and authors); چوں (Urdu) (page history and authors); squeak (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); squeak (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); squeak (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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