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creaker

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English

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Etymology 1

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From creak +‎ -er.

Noun

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creaker (plural creakers)

  1. One who, or that which, creaks.
    • 2004, Jack Nichols, The Tomcat Chronicles, page 186:
      [] the bed was a creaker, and the kitchen was inhabited by a large colony of busy roaches []

Etymology 2

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Noun

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creaker (plural creakers)

  1. Alternative form of krieker (pectoral sandpiper)