stridulate

intransitive verb

To produce a shrill grating, chirping, or hissing sound by rubbing body parts together, as certain insects do.

intransitive verb

To produce by rubbing body parts together.

To make a stridulous noise, as an insect; effect stridulation, as the cicada; grate, scrape, or creak with the organs of stridulation; shrill; chirr.

transitive verb

To make a shrill, creaking noise.

verb

To make a high-pitched chirping, grating, hissing, or squeaking sound, as male crickets and grasshoppers do, by rubbing certain body parts together.

verb

make a shrill creaking noise by rubbing together special bodily structures