squeakern.

Brit.

/ˈskwiːkə/, U.S.

/ˈskwikər/

Etymology: < squeak v.

a. One who plays on a squeaking instrument.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > music > musician > instrumentalist > other instrumentalists > [noun] > players of other instruments

symphoner14..

squeaker1650

accordionist1842

accordion player1842

mouth-organist1887

pannist1983

1650 A. Cowley Guardian v. xi. sig. F2^v Stay at the door, ye sempiternal squeakers.

1650 A. Cowley Guardian v. vi. sig. F Go home?.. We'll dance home. Afore us, squeakers: that way.

b. One who squeaks.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > voice or vocal sound > other vocal sounds > [noun] > squeak > person

squeaker1671

1671 J. Eachard Some Observ. Answer to Grounds Contempt of Clergy 152 Minical squeakers and bellowers, and the vain-glorious admirers only of themselves.

1702 P. A. Motteux in G. Farquhar Inconstant Prol. sig. a Your Rarity for the fair Guests to gape on Is your nice Squeaker, or Italian Capon.

c1753 Fox in Trevelyan (1880) ii. 45 I..found Harry in his nurse's arms... I called him Squeaker.

1823 Ld. Byron Don Juan: Canto XI lxxxv. 145 I've seen the Country Gentlemen turn squeakers.

c. slang. (See quot. 1676.)

ΘΚΠ

the world > people > person > child > [noun]

wenchelc890

childeOE

littleOE

littlingOE

hired-childc1275

smalla1300

brolla1325

innocentc1325

chickc1330

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scionc1390

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birdc1405

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small boyc1475

whelp1483

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buda1616

eyas-musketa1616

dovelinga1618

whelplinga1618

puppet1623

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chit1625

piggy1625

ninnyc1626

youngster1633

fairya1635

lap-child1655

chitterling1675

squeaker1676

cherub1680

kid1690

wean1692

kinchin1699

getlingc1700

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elfin1748

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piccaninny1774

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twopenny1844

weeny1844

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angelet1868

tenas man1870

tad1877

tacker1885

chavvy1886

joey1887

toddleskin1890

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littlie1893

peewee1894

tyke1894

che-ild1896

kiddo1896

mother's bairn1896

childling1903

kipper1905

pick1905

small1907

God forbid1909

preadolescent1909

subadolescent1914

toto1914

snookums1919

tweenie1919

problem child1920

squirt1924

trottie1924

tiddler1927

subteen1929

perisher1935

poopsie1937

pre-schooler1937

pre-teen1938

pre-teener1940

juvie1941

sprog1944

pikkie1945

subteenager1947

pre-teenager1948

pint-size1954

saucepan lid1960

rug rat1964

smallie1984

bosom-child-

1676 E. Coles Eng. Dict. Squeeker, a Barboy; also a Bastard, or any other child.

d. Criminals' slang. An informer. Cf. squealer n. 2b.

ΘΚΠ

society > communication > information > informing on or against > [noun] > informer

wrayerc1000

wrobberc1300

discoverera1400

denunciator1474

informer1503

denouncer1533

detector1541

delatora1572

sycophant1579

inquisitor1580

scout1585

finger man1596

emphanista1631

quadruplator1632

informant1645

eastee-man1681

whiddler1699

runner1724

stag1725

snitch1785

qui tam1788

squeak1795

split1819

clype1825

telegraph1825

snitcher1827

Jack Nasty1837

pigeon1847

booker1863

squealer1865

pig1874

rounder1884

sneak1886

mouse1890

finger1899

fizgig1902

screamer1902

squeaker1903

canary1912

shopper1924

narker1932

snurge1933

cheese eater1935

singer1935

tip-off1941

top-off1941

tout1959

rat fink1961

whistle-blower1970

1903 J. S. Farmer & W. E. Henley Slang VI. ii. 335/1 Squeaker, (1) a blab.., and (2) an informer.

1924 E. Wallace Room 13 vii. 171 I want to talk with you, you dirty squeaker! You're the fellow that told the deputy I was getting tobacco in through a screw.

1927 E. Wallace (title) The Squeaker.

1928 Daily Express 14 Aug. 2/7 Who was the ‘squeaker’ (informer) who gave the Lido Club notice of the recent police raid?

1929 ‘Seamark’ Down River v. 164 Grosman had laid his plans too well for any squeaker..to have a chance of success.

1930 Observer 19 Oct. 17 The recent attempt to murder him..was not due to..the impulse to remove rivals or ‘squeakers’.

1950 P. Tempest Lag's Lexicon 97 Grasser. One who gives information. A ‘squealer’ or ‘squeaker’. The origin derives from rhyming slang: grasshopper—copper; a ‘grass’ or ‘grasser’ tells the ‘copper’ or policeman.

1973 A. Hunter Gently French ii. 14 Dutt had been brooding over the tip-off mystery... The squeaker must have been Rampant.

2. A bird or animal which squeaks:

a. A young pigeon, partridge, etc.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > birds > young bird > [noun]

birdOE

chicka1398

chickena1398

brancher?a1400

pulla1500

birdling1611

puler1611

pullus1653

squeaker1654

birdeen1829

chicklet1836

baby bird1841

chirpling1888

1654 E. Gayton Pleasant Notes Don Quixot iv. ii. 179 Thou shalt lie upon thy pallat, and call to thy cook-maid, and say, dresse me that Squeeker for my breakfast.

1694 P. A. Motteux tr. F. Rabelais Pantagruel's Voy.: 4th Bk. Wks. iv. lix. 234 Pigeons, Squobbs, and Squeakers.

1829 P. Hawker Diary (1893) II. 2 I actually brought home 24 partridges, 20 of which were old ones..and two squeakers.

1854 Poultry Chron. 1 263 Squeakers will often return home from long distances though they may have been kept in a considerable time.

1881 W. W. Greener Gun & its Devel. 535 Mr. Campbell..succeeded in bagging 220 grouse by evening; every ‘squeaker’ was, however, counted.

b. Ornithology. One or other of various birds characterized by their squeaking call.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > birds > sound or bird defined by > [noun] > bird that makes sound

singing bird1565

songbird1573

whistler1590

singer1626

songster1656

songstress1684

poeta1748

squeaker1808

twitterer1815

night singer1816

song-fowl1877

1808 T. Forster Observ. Brumal Retreat Swallow 31 Hirundo Apus, Swift, Squeaker, Black Martin, Black Swallow, or Deviling.

1848 J. Gould Birds Austral. II. pl. 45 Strepera Anaphonensis, Grey Cow-Shrike;..Squeaker of the Colonists. Its note is a piercing shriek.

1896 A. J. North List Insectiv. Birds New S. Wales i. 1 For instance, Corcorax melanorhampus, Xerophila leucopsis, and Myzantha garrula are all locally known in different parts of the Colony by the name of ‘Squeaker’.

c. slang. A foxhound.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > family Canidae > hound > [noun] > fox-hound

fox-dog1708

fox-hounda1763

squeaker1828

1828 Sporting Mag. 22 23 He was often alone with the squeakers, and sometimes racing with the leaders.

d. colloquial. A (young) pig.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > order Artiodactyla (cloven-hoofed animals) > pig > [noun] > young

farrowa700

grice?c1225

piga1250

hogling1377

porketa1555

porkling1561

porkin1570

swine shoat1581

hog-babe1610

hoglet1611

pigling1612

piggy1625

gruntling1686

porkrel1694

piggy-wiggy1766

griceling1782

boneen1827

slip1832

piglet1839

slip-pig1844

squeaker1861

piggy-wig1870

snork1891

snorker1891

1861 C. Dickens Great Expectations iv, in All Year Round 8 Dec. 197/1 If you'd been born a Squeaker.

1889 R. S. S. Baden-Powell Pigsticking 28 At this period of his existence he is called a ‘squeaker’ and is not ridden.

e. Zoology. (a) (See quots.) Also attributive. (b) = cicada n.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > subclass Pterygota > [noun] > division Exopterygota or Hemimetabola > order Hemiptera > suborder Homoptera > family Cicadidae

cicada?a1475

cigala1484

bow-krickel1658

locust1709

harvest-fly1753

spit-insect1755

tettix1775

balm-cricket1783

cicala1821

tree-hopper1836

cicad1855

knife-grinder1859

scissors-grinder1875

jar-fly1880

squeaker1887

New Forest cicada1978

1887 G. B. Goode Fisheries U.S. 651 The lady crab, sand crab, or squeaker crab (Platyonichus ocellatus),..occurs on most sandy shores from Cape Cod to Mexico.

1897 ‘Natalian’ S. Afr. Boy viii. 76 The youthful genius who brought two squeakers—tree cicadæ—before school hours, and released one in each room.

1899 D. Sharp in Cambr. Nat. Hist. VI. 209 The adult Pelobius tardus is remarkable for its loud stridulation... The Insects are called squeakers in the Covent Garden market.

1959 S. J. Baker Drum 147 Squeaker: A type of cicada.

a. slang. (See quot. 1796.)

ΚΠ

1796 Grose's Classical Dict. Vulgar Tongue (ed. 3) (at cited word) Organ pipes are likewise called squeakers.

b. A device or toy instrument for producing a squeaking sound; esp. as a party toy (see quot. 1980). Cf. squawker n. 1.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > entertainment > toy or plaything > toy instruments > [noun]

mirliton1819

hewgag1850

squawker1874

squeaker1878

Tommy Talker1883

kazoo1884

the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > unpleasant quality > shrill quality > [noun] > thin and shrill sound > squeak > device

squeaker1878

1878 Grove's Dict. Music I. 124 The ‘squeaker’ which children in the fields fashion out of joints in tall grass.

1894 Westm. Gaz. 8 Mar. 6/3 A small wooden squeaker..attached to an indiarubber balloon.

1930 A. P. Herbert Water Gipsies xxv. 373 It was a Gala Night; and the waiters were distributing paper streamers, balloons, dolls, squeakers and fans.

1939 N. Coward To step Aside 49 She was seated on the knee of an Argentine with a paper fireman's hat on her head, blowing a squeaker.

1980 J. W. Hill Intermediate Physics v. 45 The party ‘squeaker’, a paper tube containing a weak coiled spring which uncoils when it is blown, works on the same principle.

4. colloquial.

a. A heavy blow. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > movement > impact > striking > striking with specific degree of force > [noun] > striking heavily > a heavy blow

smitea1200

ponder1339

clouta1400

whopc1440

routa1450

maul1481

sousec1500

dunta1522

flake1559

lambskin1573

lamback1592

daud1596

baster1600

mell1658

thumper1682

lounder1723

smash1725

plumper1756

spanker1772

douser1782

thud1787

bash1805

stave1819

batter1823

belter1823

wallop1823

whacker1823

belt1825

smasher1829

dingbat1843

dinger1845

oner1861

squeaker1877

clod1886

wham1923

dong1941

1877 in C. Gibbon Casquet of Lit. I. 245/2 We must give him a squeaker quickly or all will go wrong, I tell you.

b. North American. A game won by a very narrow margin.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > sport > match or competition > [noun] > types of

all comersc1450

after-gamea1500

fore-game1594

revenge1616

plate1639

set-to1743

return match1753

bye1754

scrub-race1791

anybody's game (also race, match)1826

return1834

barney1843

bonspiel1858

handicap1861

pennant1865

home-and-home1868

benefit match1871

run-off1873

international1877

American tournament1878

Grand Prix1879

single1884

friendly1885

all-comers1889

pair1890

championship1893

round robin1894

replay1895

Olympiad1896

junior varsity1902

lightning tournament1903

rematch1903

road trip1903

pickup1905

freestyle1906

marathon1908

test1908

Derby1909

scrimmage1910

eliminator1911

twosome1911

triala1914

quadrangular1916

slug-fest1916

varsity match1921

needle contest1922

curtain jerker1923

needle match1923

open1926

needle fight1927

knock-out1928

shirt1930

masters1933

pro-amateur1934

tune-up1934

World Cup1934

pro-am1937

state1941

sizzler1942

runathon1943

mismatch1954

run-out1955

match-up1959

squeaker1961

triple-header1961

Super Bowl1967

invitational1968

needle game1970

major1976

slobberknocker1986

1961 Webster's 3rd New Internat. Dict. Eng. Lang.

1969 Eugene (Oregon) Register-Guard 3 Dec. 1 d/1 Remember that 26–24 squeaker over Stanford, when the Indians kicked a field goal with 63 seconds left to ‘win’ the game.

1970 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 28 Sept. 18/8 Ottawa Rough Riders..lost a squeaker to Montreal.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1915; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	squeaker
释义	squeakern. Brit. /ˈskwiːkə/, U.S. /ˈskwikər/ Etymology: < squeak v. 1. a. One who plays on a squeaking instrument. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musician > instrumentalist > other instrumentalists > [noun] > players of other instruments symphoner14.. squeaker1650 accordionist1842 accordion player1842 mouth-organist1887 pannist1983 1650 A. Cowley Guardian v. xi. sig. F2^v Stay at the door, ye sempiternal squeakers. 1650 A. Cowley Guardian v. vi. sig. F Go home?.. We'll dance home. Afore us, squeakers: that way. b. One who squeaks. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > voice or vocal sound > other vocal sounds > [noun] > squeak > person squeaker1671 1671 J. Eachard Some Observ. Answer to Grounds Contempt of Clergy 152 Minical squeakers and bellowers, and the vain-glorious admirers only of themselves. 1702 P. A. Motteux in G. Farquhar Inconstant Prol. sig. a Your Rarity for the fair Guests to gape on Is your nice Squeaker, or Italian Capon. c1753 Fox in Trevelyan (1880) ii. 45 I..found Harry in his nurse's arms... I called him Squeaker. 1823 Ld. Byron Don Juan: Canto XI lxxxv. 145 I've seen the Country Gentlemen turn squeakers. c. slang. (See quot. 1676.) ΘΚΠ the world > people > person > child > [noun] wenchelc890 childeOE littleOE littlingOE hired-childc1275 smalla1300 brolla1325 innocentc1325 chickc1330 congeonc1330 impc1380 faunt1382 young onec1384 scionc1390 weea1400 birdc1405 chickenc1440 enfaunta1475 small boyc1475 whelp1483 burden1490 little one1509 brat?a1513 younkerkin1528 kitling1541 urchin1556 loneling1579 breed1586 budling1587 pledge?1587 ragazzo1591 simplicity1592 bantling1593 tadpole1594 two-year-old1594 bratcheta1600 lambkin1600 younker1601 dandling1611 buda1616 eyas-musketa1616 dovelinga1618 whelplinga1618 puppet1623 butter printa1625 chit1625 piggy1625 ninnyc1626 youngster1633 fairya1635 lap-child1655 chitterling1675 squeaker1676 cherub1680 kid1690 wean1692 kinchin1699 getlingc1700 totum17.. charity-child1723 small girl1734 poult1739 elfin1748 piggy-wiggy1766 piccaninny1774 suck-thumb18.. teeny1802 olive1803 sprout1813 stumpie1820 sexennarian1821 totty1822 toddle1825 toddles1828 poppet1830 brancher1833 toad1836 toddler1837 ankle-biter1840 yarkera1842 twopenny1844 weeny1844 tottykins1849 toddlekins1852 brattock1858 nipper1859 sprat1860 ninepins1862 angelet1868 tenas man1870 tad1877 tacker1885 chavvy1886 joey1887 toddleskin1890 thumb-sucker1891 littlie1893 peewee1894 tyke1894 che-ild1896 kiddo1896 mother's bairn1896 childling1903 kipper1905 pick1905 small1907 God forbid1909 preadolescent1909 subadolescent1914 toto1914 snookums1919 tweenie1919 problem child1920 squirt1924 trottie1924 tiddler1927 subteen1929 perisher1935 poopsie1937 pre-schooler1937 pre-teen1938 pre-teener1940 juvie1941 sprog1944 pikkie1945 subteenager1947 pre-teenager1948 pint-size1954 saucepan lid1960 rug rat1964 smallie1984 bosom-child- 1676 E. Coles Eng. Dict. Squeeker, a Barboy; also a Bastard, or any other child. d. Criminals' slang. An informer. Cf. squealer n. 2b. ΘΚΠ society > communication > information > informing on or against > [noun] > informer wrayerc1000 wrobberc1300 discoverera1400 denunciator1474 informer1503 denouncer1533 detector1541 delatora1572 sycophant1579 inquisitor1580 scout1585 finger man1596 emphanista1631 quadruplator1632 informant1645 eastee-man1681 whiddler1699 runner1724 stag1725 snitch1785 qui tam1788 squeak1795 split1819 clype1825 telegraph1825 snitcher1827 Jack Nasty1837 pigeon1847 booker1863 squealer1865 pig1874 rounder1884 sneak1886 mouse1890 finger1899 fizgig1902 screamer1902 squeaker1903 canary1912 shopper1924 narker1932 snurge1933 cheese eater1935 singer1935 tip-off1941 top-off1941 tout1959 rat fink1961 whistle-blower1970 1903 J. S. Farmer & W. E. Henley Slang VI. ii. 335/1 Squeaker, (1) a blab.., and (2) an informer. 1924 E. Wallace Room 13 vii. 171 I want to talk with you, you dirty squeaker! You're the fellow that told the deputy I was getting tobacco in through a screw. 1927 E. Wallace (title) The Squeaker. 1928 Daily Express 14 Aug. 2/7 Who was the ‘squeaker’ (informer) who gave the Lido Club notice of the recent police raid? 1929 ‘Seamark’ Down River v. 164 Grosman had laid his plans too well for any squeaker..to have a chance of success. 1930 Observer 19 Oct. 17 The recent attempt to murder him..was not due to..the impulse to remove rivals or ‘squeakers’. 1950 P. Tempest Lag's Lexicon 97 Grasser. One who gives information. A ‘squealer’ or ‘squeaker’. The origin derives from rhyming slang: grasshopper—copper; a ‘grass’ or ‘grasser’ tells the ‘copper’ or policeman. 1973 A. Hunter Gently French ii. 14 Dutt had been brooding over the tip-off mystery... The squeaker must have been Rampant. 2. A bird or animal which squeaks: a. A young pigeon, partridge, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > young bird > [noun] birdOE chicka1398 chickena1398 brancher?a1400 pulla1500 birdling1611 puler1611 pullus1653 squeaker1654 birdeen1829 chicklet1836 baby bird1841 chirpling1888 1654 E. Gayton Pleasant Notes Don Quixot iv. ii. 179 Thou shalt lie upon thy pallat, and call to thy cook-maid, and say, dresse me that Squeeker for my breakfast. 1694 P. A. Motteux tr. F. Rabelais Pantagruel's Voy.: 4th Bk. Wks. iv. lix. 234 Pigeons, Squobbs, and Squeakers. 1829 P. Hawker Diary (1893) II. 2 I actually brought home 24 partridges, 20 of which were old ones..and two squeakers. 1854 Poultry Chron. 1 263 Squeakers will often return home from long distances though they may have been kept in a considerable time. 1881 W. W. Greener Gun & its Devel. 535 Mr. Campbell..succeeded in bagging 220 grouse by evening; every ‘squeaker’ was, however, counted. b. Ornithology. One or other of various birds characterized by their squeaking call. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > sound or bird defined by > [noun] > bird that makes sound singing bird1565 songbird1573 whistler1590 singer1626 songster1656 songstress1684 poeta1748 squeaker1808 twitterer1815 night singer1816 song-fowl1877 1808 T. Forster Observ. Brumal Retreat Swallow 31 Hirundo Apus, Swift, Squeaker, Black Martin, Black Swallow, or Deviling. 1848 J. Gould Birds Austral. II. pl. 45 Strepera Anaphonensis, Grey Cow-Shrike;..Squeaker of the Colonists. Its note is a piercing shriek. 1896 A. J. North List Insectiv. Birds New S. Wales i. 1 For instance, Corcorax melanorhampus, Xerophila leucopsis, and Myzantha garrula are all locally known in different parts of the Colony by the name of ‘Squeaker’. c. slang. A foxhound. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > family Canidae > hound > [noun] > fox-hound fox-dog1708 fox-hounda1763 squeaker1828 1828 Sporting Mag. 22 23 He was often alone with the squeakers, and sometimes racing with the leaders. d. colloquial. A (young) pig. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > order Artiodactyla (cloven-hoofed animals) > pig > [noun] > young farrowa700 grice?c1225 piga1250 hogling1377 porketa1555 porkling1561 porkin1570 swine shoat1581 hog-babe1610 hoglet1611 pigling1612 piggy1625 gruntling1686 porkrel1694 piggy-wiggy1766 griceling1782 boneen1827 slip1832 piglet1839 slip-pig1844 squeaker1861 piggy-wig1870 snork1891 snorker1891 1861 C. Dickens Great Expectations iv, in All Year Round 8 Dec. 197/1 If you'd been born a Squeaker. 1889 R. S. S. Baden-Powell Pigsticking 28 At this period of his existence he is called a ‘squeaker’ and is not ridden. e. Zoology. (a) (See quots.) Also attributive. (b) = cicada n. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > subclass Pterygota > [noun] > division Exopterygota or Hemimetabola > order Hemiptera > suborder Homoptera > family Cicadidae cicada?a1475 cigala1484 bow-krickel1658 locust1709 harvest-fly1753 spit-insect1755 tettix1775 balm-cricket1783 cicala1821 tree-hopper1836 cicad1855 knife-grinder1859 scissors-grinder1875 jar-fly1880 squeaker1887 New Forest cicada1978 1887 G. B. Goode Fisheries U.S. 651 The lady crab, sand crab, or squeaker crab (Platyonichus ocellatus),..occurs on most sandy shores from Cape Cod to Mexico. 1897 ‘Natalian’ S. Afr. Boy viii. 76 The youthful genius who brought two squeakers—tree cicadæ—before school hours, and released one in each room. 1899 D. Sharp in Cambr. Nat. Hist. VI. 209 The adult Pelobius tardus is remarkable for its loud stridulation... The Insects are called squeakers in the Covent Garden market. 1959 S. J. Baker Drum 147 Squeaker: A type of cicada. 3. a. slang. (See quot. 1796.) ΚΠ 1796 Grose's Classical Dict. Vulgar Tongue (ed. 3) (at cited word) Organ pipes are likewise called squeakers. b. A device or toy instrument for producing a squeaking sound; esp. as a party toy (see quot. 1980). Cf. squawker n. 1. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > toy or plaything > toy instruments > [noun] mirliton1819 hewgag1850 squawker1874 squeaker1878 Tommy Talker1883 kazoo1884 the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > unpleasant quality > shrill quality > [noun] > thin and shrill sound > squeak > device squeaker1878 1878 Grove's Dict. Music I. 124 The ‘squeaker’ which children in the fields fashion out of joints in tall grass. 1894 Westm. Gaz. 8 Mar. 6/3 A small wooden squeaker..attached to an indiarubber balloon. 1930 A. P. Herbert Water Gipsies xxv. 373 It was a Gala Night; and the waiters were distributing paper streamers, balloons, dolls, squeakers and fans. 1939 N. Coward To step Aside 49 She was seated on the knee of an Argentine with a paper fireman's hat on her head, blowing a squeaker. 1980 J. W. Hill Intermediate Physics v. 45 The party ‘squeaker’, a paper tube containing a weak coiled spring which uncoils when it is blown, works on the same principle. 4. colloquial. a. A heavy blow. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > impact > striking > striking with specific degree of force > [noun] > striking heavily > a heavy blow smitea1200 ponder1339 clouta1400 whopc1440 routa1450 maul1481 sousec1500 dunta1522 flake1559 lambskin1573 lamback1592 daud1596 baster1600 mell1658 thumper1682 lounder1723 smash1725 plumper1756 spanker1772 douser1782 thud1787 bash1805 stave1819 batter1823 belter1823 wallop1823 whacker1823 belt1825 smasher1829 dingbat1843 dinger1845 oner1861 squeaker1877 clod1886 wham1923 dong1941 1877 in C. Gibbon Casquet of Lit. I. 245/2 We must give him a squeaker quickly or all will go wrong, I tell you. b. North American. A game won by a very narrow margin. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > match or competition > [noun] > types of all comersc1450 after-gamea1500 fore-game1594 revenge1616 plate1639 set-to1743 return match1753 bye1754 scrub-race1791 anybody's game (also race, match)1826 return1834 barney1843 bonspiel1858 handicap1861 pennant1865 home-and-home1868 benefit match1871 run-off1873 international1877 American tournament1878 Grand Prix1879 single1884 friendly1885 all-comers1889 pair1890 championship1893 round robin1894 replay1895 Olympiad1896 junior varsity1902 lightning tournament1903 rematch1903 road trip1903 pickup1905 freestyle1906 marathon1908 test1908 Derby1909 scrimmage1910 eliminator1911 twosome1911 triala1914 quadrangular1916 slug-fest1916 varsity match1921 needle contest1922 curtain jerker1923 needle match1923 open1926 needle fight1927 knock-out1928 shirt1930 masters1933 pro-amateur1934 tune-up1934 World Cup1934 pro-am1937 state1941 sizzler1942 runathon1943 mismatch1954 run-out1955 match-up1959 squeaker1961 triple-header1961 Super Bowl1967 invitational1968 needle game1970 major1976 slobberknocker1986 1961 Webster's 3rd New Internat. Dict. Eng. Lang. 1969 Eugene (Oregon) Register-Guard 3 Dec. 1 d/1 Remember that 26–24 squeaker over Stanford, when the Indians kicked a field goal with 63 seconds left to ‘win’ the game. 1970 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 28 Sept. 18/8 Ottawa Rough Riders..lost a squeaker to Montreal. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1915; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1650
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