verb
- Manage one's existence barely.
- usage: "I guess I can squeeze by on this lousy salary"
- synonyms: scrape along, scrape by, scratch along, squeeze by, rub along
- Escape.
- usage: "She squeaked by me"
- synonyms: squeak through
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