0 present participle of creak --
1 When a door, floorboard, etc. creaks, it makes a long low sound when it moves or is moved: --
There are two ways of reforming any part of our system which is creaking.
I submit that that is a mistake and that it propagates a system that is creaking at the seams.
It is no wonder that the social security budget is creaking at the seams.
Examining boards are often creaking under strain and disillusioned students are weary of taking exam after exam.
It has proved a great deal better than the poll tax, but it is creaking at the seams now.
As at present organised, they are constantly groaning and creaking under the burden of their increased criminal business.
Our current company law is creaking with age.
The principle that the users of the tunnel should pay for the burden of debt interest is obviously creaking loudly.
