Yes, squeak is a verb as well as a noun and adjective form. As a verb, to squeak means to make a short, high-pitched, sharp sound, to emit a squeak. For example, the door squeaks, the mouse squeaked, the shoes are squeaking. The verb forms are squeak present, squeaks third person singular, squeaking present participle and gerund, and squeaked past tense and past participle. Example sentences, the hinge squeaks when you open it, the toy squeaked when squeezed, she squeaked with delight. Squeak can be transitive and intransitive, you can say she squeaked a greeting meaning she said something in squeaky voice. In slang, to squeak can mean to inform or confess, as in he squeaked to the police. So squeak functions as verb meaning to make high sound, and as noun meaning the sound itself, as in I heard a squeak. The adjective is squeaky and adverb squeakily. So yes, squeak is commonly used as verb in everyday English to describe making that high-pitched noise, and it is listed as verb in all major dictionaries.
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