Usually means: Produces noise when moved, old.
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  1. creaky: Merriam-Webster
  2. creaky: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. creaky: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. creaky: Collins English Dictionary
  5. creaky: Vocabulary.com
  6. Creaky, creaky: Wordnik
  7. creaky: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. creaky: Wiktionary
  9. creaky: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. creaky: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. creaky: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. creaky: Dictionary.com
  13. creaky: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. creaky: Rhymezone
  15. creaky: FreeDictionary.org
  16. creaky: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. creaky: TheFreeDictionary.com
  18. creaky: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. creaky: Encyclopedia

(Note: See creakier as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Tending to creak
adjective:  Worn down by overuse; decrepit
adjective:  arthritic or rheumatic
adjective:  (linguistics) Of or relating to a special kind of phonation in which the arytenoid cartilages in the larynx are drawn together, compressing the vocal folds.

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