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View synonyms for squeaker

squeaker

[ skwee-ker ]

noun

  1. a person or thing that squeaks.
  2. Informal. a contest or game won by a very small margin.
  3. Informal. a dangerous situation.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of squeaker1

First recorded in 1635–45; squeak + -er 1

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Example Sentences

This was true after Florida, Nevada, and even that home-state squeaker, Michigan.

Obama is more likely to win in a squeaker than with a Reagan-sized mandate.

The Diaz-Balarts, both in squeaker races, are fighting for their political lives.

Squeaker would lend me a guinea with pleasure; he is a large-minded man, I am sure.

And, in almost the same way, the bunny uncle had saved Squeaker, when his wooden house was blown over by the wolf.

So I set a trap and next night had a specimen of the Squeaker as well as a couple of the omnipresent Deer-mice.

The globes set up their seductive rhythms as before, but he could not hear them above the discord of his squeaker.

They tried to herd him into the first cave on the right, but he had remembered the squeaker; they could not distract him.

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