Squeak (Grose 1811 Dictionary)

Squeak

A narrow escape, a chance: he had a squeak for his life. To squeak; to confess, peach, or turn stag. They squeak beef upon us; they cry out thieves after us. Cant.

Definition taken from The 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, originally by Francis Grose.

Square Toes * Squeaker

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Nathan Bailey's 1736 Dictionary of canting and thieving slang

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