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.
- (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.
- (British) 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, zoo, countable) A muskrat, short form of musquash.
- (obsolete) (countable) Something soft and easily crushed; especially, an unripe pod of peas.
- (obsolete) (countable) Something unripe or soft; -- used in contempt.
- (countable) (obsolete) A sudden fall of a heavy, soft body; also, a shock of soft bodies.
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The sport
plant and its fruit of the genus Cucurbita
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to 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) To compress or restrict into a small space; to squeeze.
- Somehow, she squashed all her books into her backpack, which was now too heavy to carry.
- (intransitive) To become compressed or restricted by contact with others.
- We all managed to squash into Mum's tiny car.
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to beat or press into pulp or flat mass