Usually means: Sound made by bending wood.
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  1. creak: Merriam-Webster
  2. creak: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. creak: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. creak: Collins English Dictionary
  5. creak: Vocabulary.com
  6. Creak, creak: Wordnik
  7. creak: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. creak: Wiktionary
  9. creak: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. creak: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. creak: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Creak, creak: Dictionary.com
  13. creak: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. creak: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Creak: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Creak: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. creak: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. creak: Rhymezone
  19. Creak: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. creak: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. creak: FreeDictionary.org
  22. creak: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. creak: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. creak: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. creak: Encyclopedia

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  1. creak: Idioms

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  1. C'reak, Creak (V), Creak: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See creaked as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  The sound produced by anything that creaks; a creaking.
verb:  (intransitive) To make a prolonged sharp grating or squeaking sound, as by the friction of hard substances.
verb:  (transitive) To produce a creaking sound with.
verb:  (intransitive, figurative) To suffer from strain or old age.

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