squawk

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squawk

1. verb, slang To complain in a loud, grating, peevish manner. What's he squawking about?
2. noun, slang Such a complaint. As a waiter, I eventually just got used to the squawks of impatient customers.

squawk about (someone or something)

1. To talk about something in a loud, grating, obnoxious manner. He's spent the last half an hour squawking about the new girl he's dating. A: "What's Mary squawking about now?" B: "Oh, she's off on some long-winded explanation of postmodernism."
2. To complain about something in a loud, grating, peevish manner. If I have to listen to him squawk about the election for the next hour, I'm going to scream.
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squawk box

An always-on multi-speaker telecommunication system in which speakers located in multiple locations allow the people there to communicate directly by simply pressing a button. The squawk boxes in the warehouse allows the foreman to issue instructions to everyone at the same time. We use squawk boxes in our brokerage firm to pass important information about upcoming stock trades on the fly.
See also: box, squawk
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

squawk about something

to complain about something. stop squawking about how much money you lost. I lost twice as much. What are you squawking about now?
See also: squawk
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.

squawk

1. in. to complain. Some people squawk because they don’t have anything else to do.
2. n. a complaint. Here’s another squawk from the lady on the third floor.
3. tv. & in. to reveal or blab something. She squawked the whole business to the fuzz.

squawk box

n. a public-address system; a loudspeaker, especially if installed in a box or other housing. A raspy voice came over the squawk box announcing the arrival of what we had been waiting for.
See also: box, squawk
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
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  • guns
  • flash
  • flash on
  • flashing
  • jack
  • jacked
  • jacking
  • flag
  • flagged
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Each aircraft would have contacted approach on their own to get a squawk and coordinated their own arrival.
Clean up, join up, and shut up
The inspiratory "squawk" in extrinsic allergic alveolitis and other pulmonary fibroses.
Cockatiel-induced hypersensitivity pneumonitis. (Grand Rounds in Environmental Medicine)
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We used that photo to accompany Squawk Box items discussing service difficulty reports on fuel lines and an electric fuel pump.
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He said: 'It was in a building site near Felsted Close - I heard a squawk in one of the trees.
LOOK WHO HAS BEEN AS SICK AS A PARROT!
If a short seller report emerged in 2016 or 2017, it would have been "a lot more substantive," since the company did take a $15-billion writedown charge in early 2018, Heymann said on "Squawk Box."
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Transponders work on secondary radar, allowing ATC to observe both altitudes and squawk codes.
Radar contact
The business news channel's debate will be (http://www.cnbc.com/2015/10/21/cnbc-reveals-republican-presidential-debate-lineup.html) moderated by John Harwood, its chief Washington correspondent, Becky Quick, co-anchor of the Wall Street-focused morning show "Squawk Box" and Carl Quintanilla, co-anchor of "Squawk on the Street" and "Squawk Alley." The main three moderators will be joined by a panel of CNBC experts, including Senior Personal Finance Correspondent Sharon Epperson, on-air editor Rick Santelli and Jim Cramer, host of "Mad Money."
Who Are The CNBC Debate Moderators?
I'm sure the drug dealers hoping the parrot doesn't squawk!
Drug dealers hoping jail bird doesn't squawk
Only Summertime and We Got It Going On pack a punch, the latter cynically exploiting the squawk box from Livin' On A Prayer and the chant from Keep The Faith.
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To the uninitiated Vicky Pollard's squawk of "Yeah, but no but yeah" sounds as baffling as ITMA sayings do now.
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I climbed aggressively and accelerated, while my crew started talking to the controllers, beginning with GCA (a Japanese controller) and finally Approach (a USAF controller), to explain our emergency squawk. My maneuvering brought us from 3,000 feet and 250 knots to 5,500 feet, 60 degrees AOB, and almost 400 knots, all within a five-mile hole surrounded by thunderstorms.
VFR IN A THUNDERSTORM (NO, NOT US, THE OTHER GUY!)
Laura exercise a double standard and would squawk like ducks if someone tried to kick them off the air for their opinions.
The Nike chain-saw massacre
Lost Vegas became Vegasland, a wholesome middle-American theme-park resort or, as Nick Tosches calls it in his intro to the recently published, elegiac anthology Literary Las Vegas, "a corporate-run nightmare draped in the cotton candy of family values." Though pols may squawk about our unraveling moral fabric, the sometime crime of gambling, legitimated by both church and state, has been reborn as an essential source of tax revenue, a $30 billion mass entertainment providing half a million predominantly low-salary service jobs (mainly, as journalist Marc Cooper notes, for the "displaced white working class" of "the new downsized order").
Stardust memories