squash

UK /skwɒʃ/ US /skwɔʃ/
noun 11verb 3intj 1name 1

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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