Definition of "squawk"

That was the last roundup for McCutcheon’s Cresswell; it never moved from that field again. Not that there was any squawk from the landlord; the two of them owned it, of course.

1983, Stephen King, Uncle Otto's Truck

We think instructors should stress the importance of writeups on all maintenance squawks after the completion of each flight. More important, something should be done by the aircraft operator to correct such squawks.

1969, American Aviation, volume 32

The function-hiding code above, for instance, goes through a different (but widely used) compiler with nary a squawk.

2012, Scott Meyers, Effective C++ Digital Collection: 140 Ways to Improve Your Programming

The hens woke up squawking with terror because they had all dreamed simultaneously of hearing a gun go off in the distance.

1945 August 17, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter 6, in Animal Farm […], London: Secker & Warburg

"I'll slit your throat if you squawk on us," Krantz threatened.

1948, Andrew Geer, The Sea Chase, page 68

That way, if you type = instead of ==, the compiler will squawk because you can't assign something to a constant.

1993, Steve Maguire, Writing Solid Code

You want the compiler to squawk if you try to instantiate for a type that doesn't implement IPrioritizable.

2013, Bill Sempf, Chuck Sphar, Stephen R. Davis, C# 5.0 All-in-One For Dummies