squeak
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- n a short high-pitched noise
the squeak of shoes on powdery snow - n something achieved (or escaped) by a narrow margin
- v make a high-pitched, screeching noise
- In 1992 Finkel-think helped New York Senator Alfonse D'Amato squeak past "hopelessly liberal" challenger Robert Abrams; in 1994 it helped a blank-slate state senator George Pataki .
- The animals also seem delighted and squeak with pleasure.
- Slowly the great bell teetered on its pivots, causing a faint squeak to be broadcast over the radio to all Germany by the great Koenigswusterhausen Station.