squeaker
Americannoun
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a person or thing that squeaks.
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Informal. a contest or game won by a very small margin.
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Informal. a dangerous situation.
Etymology
Origin of squeaker
Example Sentences
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It’s a squeaker, but “Spider-Verse” likely prevails for the simple reason that more people saw it.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 6, 2024
And the one game they did barely win was a 20-17 squeaker over perhaps the worst team in football, the New England Patriots.
From Washington Times ● Nov. 13, 2023
Polling suggests that the candidate they’re choosing to go with is Mark Ronchetti, a weatherman from Albuquerque who lost the 2020 Senate race in a surprisingly close squeaker.
From Slate ● Jun. 7, 2022
The Red Raiders started 5-2 under embattled coach Matt Wells, but a squeaker of a loss to Kansas State gave athletic director Kirby Hocutt the opening necessary to fire him.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 9, 2021
Although embodying a very ancient principle—the "squeaker" reed which our little children still make, and continued in the Egyptian arghool—the clarinet is the most recent member of the wood wind band.
From Scientific American Supplement No. 819, September 12, 1891 by Various
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