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• n  any artifact that makes a squeaking sound when used
  those sneakers are squeakers
  which hinge is the squeaker?
• n  something achieved (or escaped) by a narrow margin

• Will it be a squeaker or a landslide? Either way, expect the results to be challenged; both sides have dispatched tens of thousands of lawyers and observers to 12 battleground .
• Ordinarily, Ichiro's second on-base of the eveningan otherwise undistinguished squeaker of a hitwould not have made that night's news-highlight reel, let alone become a .
• Won battle for White House against Richard Nixon in squeaker.

• close call
• close shave
• squeak
• narrow escape

News & Articles

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• Blount County voters to take up wheel tax question today
  MARYVILLE — Voter turnout, expected to be something less than overwhelming today, could make for a squeaker of a decision on a wheel tax that would benefit Blount County Schools.
  June 11, 2013 - Knoxville News Sentinel

Quotes

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• Steven Schier in Washington Post
  I have no evidence that this is happening,Schier said, but he added: "I'm still thinking there's a 25 percent chance that this is a squeaker race and McCain pulls it out."
• Sigi Schmid in Seattle Post Intelligencer
  If they're playing a man up and win a squeaker and they're happy, that's good for us,Schmid said.
• DB Sweeney in West Virginia Record
  In the script, Texas beats USC by three points 'in a squeaker,' to reference the gambling lingo John McGinley's character uses,Sweeney said. "USC would not agree to let us use their logo if their team lost the fictional game. Ridiculous as...