squash
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squash (countable and uncountable; plural squashes)
- (uncountable) A sport played in a walled court with a soft rubber ball and bats like tennis racquets.
- (UK) A soft drink made from a fruit-based concentrate diluted with water.
- When I'm thirsty I drink squash; it tastes much nicer than plain water.
- A place or a situation where people have limited space to move.
- It's a bit of a squash in this small room.
- (obsolete, countable) Something soft and easily crushed; especially, an unripe pod of peas.
- (obsolete, countable, pejorative) Something unripe or soft.
- (obsolete, countable) A sudden fall of a heavy, soft body; also, a shock of soft bodies.
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The sport
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squash (third-person singular simple present squashes, present participle squashing, simple past and past participle squashed)
- (transitive) To beat or press into pulp or a flat mass; to crush.
- (transitive, intransitive) To compress or restrict (oneself) into a small space; to squeeze.
- Somehow, she squashed all her books into her backpack, which was now too heavy to carry.
- We all managed to squash into Mum's tiny car.
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to beat or press into pulp or flat mass
to compress
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squash (uncountable)
- (countable) (botany) A plant and its fruit of the genus Cucurbita, or gourd kind.
- Note: The species are much confused. The long-neck squash is called Cucurbita verrucosa, the Barbary or China squash, C. moschata, and the great winter squash, C. maxima, but the distinctions are not clear.
- The edible fruit of this plant, or this fruit prepared as a dish.
- We ate squash and green beans.
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plant and its fruit of the genus Cucurbita
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shortening of musquash
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squash (plural squashes)
[edit] French
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From English squash
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- IPA: /skwaʃ/
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squash m. (plural squashs)
- (sports) (uncountable) squash
- Jouer au squash.
- squash game
- On s'est fait deux squashs aujourd'hui.
- squash court
- La ville a construit trois squashs municipaux.
[edit] References
- "squash" in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
[edit] Norwegian Bokmål
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squash m.
- squash (fruit)
- squash (sport)
- squash (soft drink)
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Inflection of squash
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squash m.
- squash (fruit)
- squash (sport)
- squash (soft drink)
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