0 (of a bird) to make an unpleasantly loud, sharp noise:
1 an unpleasantly loud, sharp noise made by a bird:
I peered up through the leaves but a piercing squawk warned me away.
He emitted strange and inappropriate high-pitched squawks of laughter throughout the performance.
We may expect the usual squawks about how we're selling our national treasures to foreigners.
2 to make a loud, unpleasant cry:
The bird fought to free itself in a rustle of feathers and squawks.
The silence was broken only by the occasional squawk from the baby.
Every time anyone from this side makes a valid and powerful point, it is met with squawks of laughter from the other side.
Having erected an engine of oppression, they have been running around squawking.
The shareholders sit in their nests squawking for higher dividends and waiting to be fed.
One gets many squawks if one increases taxation.
I sort of squeaked and squawked about this in one of these debates, but there was absolutely no response.
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