squeaker

English

Etymology

From squeak +‎ -er (“agent”).

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Noun

squeaker (plural squeakers)

  1. One who or that which squeaks.
    1. (Internet slang) A young user on a voice chat system who has a high-pitched voice.
  2. A party toy that uncoils with a squeaking sound when blown; a party puffer.
  3. (slang) An informer.
  5. (US) A game or election won by a narrow margin.
    • 2024 October 3, Dana Taylor, “Allan Lichtman shares his 2024 presidential election prediction (podcast transcript)”, in USA Today‎[1], The Excerpt:
      I mentioned that you correctly predicted nine of the last 10 presidential election outcomes, save one, in 2000 when George W. Bush defeated Al Gore, and that was a squeaker.
  6. An animal that squeaks.
    1. An Australian grey crow-shrike or grey currawong (Strepera versicolor plumbea).
    2. A piglet of the wild boar.
    3. Any of family Arthroleptidae, of frogs.
    4. Any of genus Synodontis, of catfish.
    5. A young bird; a cheeper.
      1. A squab or young domestic pigeon still in the nest.
  7. (slang) An act of flatulence; a fart.
    • 2014, Daley James Francis, Walking Up a Slide:
      He sat down, let out a squeaker, and then unloaded his entire wedding breakfast into the pan. Cheers buddy. Nothing kills a moment of nostalgia better than a fat man using the shithouse.
  8. (slang) A child, especially an illegitimate one.

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