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noun 
  1. A high-pitched chirping, grating, hissing, or squeaking sound, as male crickets and grasshoppers make by rubbing certain body parts together.
Etymology: 1838, from earlier term (term, stridulous); from (term, stridulus) "giving a shrill sound, creaking," from (term, stridere) "to utter an inarticulate sound, grate, creak".


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