squawker n.
1. (US) a professional singer.
![[US]](/static/img/flags/us.png "United States") | Nat. Police Gaz. (NY) 3 June 2/3: Patti, Gerster, Nilsson and the other highpriced squawkers are coming over the sea. |
2. (US) one who makes a complaint, esp. a victim of crime.
| Capt. Billy’s Whiz Bang Oct. 6: Rebadow is neither soldier nor gambler but a dyed-in-the-wool squawker. | |
| ‘A Chilly Looking Blond’ in These Were Our Years (1959) 211: Old Father Adam, the original, and perhaps the loudest ‘squawker’ among mankind against women. | |
| It’s a Racket! 239: squawker—One who makes a complaint. | |
| Amer. Tramp and Und. Sl. 180: Squawker.–A dissatisfied customer, or one who, having been defrauded, makes a ‘squawk’ or complaint, either to the person responsible for the fraud or to the police. | |
| Stag Line 164: That dame looks like a squawker to me. | |
 | S.F. Examiner (CA) 12 July 38/1: Loudest of the squawkers turned out to be [...] one Joe ‘Square Apple’ Lynch of Los Angeles. | |
| World’s Toughest Prison 819: squawker – A dissatisfied customer; or one who, having been defrauded makes a ‘squawk’ or complaint. |
3. an informer.
| Fighting Blood 301: I am no squawker. | |
| One-Way Ride 173: ‘I am no squawker,’ said Capone. | |
| High Sierra in Four Novels (1984) 329: She’s no loud-mouthed squawker. |
4. (US) a lit. or fig. confidence trickster.
| Silver Eagle 3: ‘The guys that run accounts, big accounts, are squawkers. All they’re looking for is a chance to welsh’. |
5. (US teen) a parent.
| Shake, Rattle and Rock [film script] Must be a lot of our squawkers could give a finger. |
6. (US teen) a record-player.
| Web of the City (1983) 80: Fish [...] yelled at Poop, ‘Shut off that squawker!’ Poop slammed the tone arm of the record player aside. |
7. (Aus.) a chicken.
![[Aus]](/static/img/flags/aus.png "Australia") | Tales of the Honey Badger [ebook] I was working up the chook pen and thought ‘maybe we whack a few of these squawkers on the island’. |