squash the beef
To resolve a grudge.
How you gonna explain fuckin' a man? Even if we squash the beef, I ain't touchin' your hand
squash
UK /skwɒʃ/ US /skwɔʃ/
noun 11verb 3intj 1name 1
Collocations
5ADJ.
all, baked, brown, cooked, good, green, managed, olympic
VERB + SQUASH
ate, cannot, game, like, looks, play, plays, requires
SQUASH + NOUN
beans, carrots, cucumbers, melon, mum's, peas, saturday, sometime
PREP.
into, out, up, up, with
ADV.
only
Definitions
noun
1
A sport played in a walled court with a soft rubber ball and bats like tennis racquets.
She plays squash every Saturday.
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
A non-alcoholic drink made from a fruit-based concentrate diluted with water or milk.
Sure. I pour hot squash all over myself and we all have a good chuckle. Everyone except Muggins here.
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
A preparation made by placing material on a slide (flat, rectangular piece of glass), covering it and applying pressure.
5
Something soft and easily crushed; especially, an unripe pod of peas.
verb
1
To beat or press into pulp or a flat mass; to crush.
2
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.
3
To suppress; to force into submission.
A somewhat popular myth about the Whiskey Rebellion is that Washington personally led the troops into western Pennsylvania and squashed the rebellion.
intj
1
The sound of something relatively heavy splashing or squelching into water.
[…] rain, too, had lately fallen, and had decidedly not evaporated, since, at every step, I went squash! squash! up to the tops of my boots, and many times very extent, stretching to the eastward, […]
[…] to catch all the rain […]; my boots went squash, squash, as I turned on to the high road, […]
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She plays squash every Saturday.
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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
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The bat, as a racquet used to be called, is the chief tool of the squash tradesman.
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Somehow, she squashed all her books into her backpack, which was now too heavy to carry.
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We all managed to squash into Mum's tiny car.
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A somewhat popular myth about the Whiskey Rebellion is that Washington personally led the troops into western Pennsylvania and squashed the rebellion.
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