Meaning

A short, high-pitched metallic sound.

Definitions by Sense

1. A short, high-pitched metallic sound
2. A cryptid supposedly found in Washington State, the Columbia River sand squink, which has a body like a fox, the head and ears of a jackrabbit, and a bushy tail like a squirrel.
3. An instance of squinking.
4. (transitive) To scrunch up, squinch (one's face, nose, etc).

Example Sentences

Well, I hear three distinct sounds: a low rumple, followed by a metallic squink […] followed by a mysterious glonk.

Immediately began that shrill and irritating squink-squink-squink.

Edgar heard a click and a squink, and just when he thought the hood was about to pop open, it exploded with a tremendous blast and he was knocked clear across the garage.

It stared at the audience with wide white eyes, then tapped the side of its throat, producing a drawn-out metallic squink.

The Squink isn't particularly fussy about its diet, but has a great fondness for electric eels.

The Sand Squink possesses an amazing ability to generate electric charges by touching the tip of its bushy tail to either of the nubs at the tips of its ears.

Normally a timid creature, when the sand squink eats the eels it gains both courage and an electric charge;

The sand squink is an egg-laying creature; its eggs are made of a plastic-like material so as to protect the unborn young within from the mother's electrical discharge.

Word Forms

• squinks
• squinking
• squinked

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