squash

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Noun[edit]

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  1. (uncountable) A sport played in a walled court with a soft rubber ball and bats like tennis racquets.
    • 1922, Michael Arlen, chapter 3/19/2, “Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days[1]:
      Ivor had acquired more than a mile of fishing rights with the house; he was not at all a good fisherman, but one must do something; one generally, however, banged a ball with a squash-racket against a wall.
  2. (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.
  3. A place or a situation where people have limited space to move.
    It's a bit of a squash in this small room.
  4. (obsolete, countable) Something soft and easily crushed; especially, an unripe pod of peas.
  5. (obsolete, countable, pejorative) Something unripe or soft.
  6. (obsolete, countable) A sudden fall of a heavy, soft body; also, a shock of soft bodies.
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squash (third-person singular simple present squashes, present participle squashing, simple past and past participle squashed)

  1. (transitive) To beat or press into pulp or a flat mass; to crush.
  2. (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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Etymology 2[edit]

Shortening of squantersquash, from a Narragansett word.

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squash (uncountable)

  1. (countable, botany) A plant and its fruit of the genus Cucurbita, or gourd kind.
  2. The edible fruit of this plant, or this fruit prepared as a dish.
    We ate squash and green beans.
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shortening of musquash

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squash (plural squashes)

  1. (obsolete, zoo, countable) Muskrat.
    • Dampier
      The squash is a four-footed beast, bigger than a cat.

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Etymology[edit]

Borrowing from English squash

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  • IPA: /skwaʃ/

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squash m (plural squashs)

  1. (sports) (uncountable) squash
    Jouer au squash.
  2. squash game
    On s'est fait deux squashs aujourd'hui.
  3. squash court
    La ville a construit trois squashs municipaux.

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Norwegian Bokmål[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowing from English squash

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squash m

  1. squash (fruit)
  2. squash (sport)
  3. squash (soft drink)

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Etymology[edit]

Borrowing from English squash

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squash m

  1. squash (fruit)
  2. squash (sport)
  3. squash (soft drink)

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