squash
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- (British) IPA: /skwɒʃ/
- (America) IPA: /skwɔʃ/
- (America, cot-caught) IPA: /skwɑʃ/
- (rural US, intrusive r) IPA: /skwɔɹʃ/
squash
- (uncountable) A sport played in a walled court with a soft rubber ball and bats like tennis racquets.
- (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, 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.
- (slang, professional wrestling) An extremely one-sided, usually short, match.
- Brock Lesnar} (18 August 2014), “WWE SummerSlam 2014: How Twitter reacted to {{w”, in (Please provide the title of the work), The Independent, retrieved 30 July 2015
- It was one of the most shocking WWE title matches ever witnessed, and effectively a 20-minute squash match as Brock Lesnar "conquered" his opponent.
- Brock Lesnar} (18 August 2014), “WWE SummerSlam 2014: How Twitter reacted to {{w”, in (Please provide the title of the work), The Independent, retrieved 30 July 2015
squash (squashes, present participle squashing; 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.
- (transitive) To suppress; to force into submission.
- (to compress) condense, press; see also Thesaurus:compress
- French: presser
- German: zusammendrücken
- Portuguese: comprimir
- Russian: сда́вливать
- Spanish: aplastamiento, aplastar
squash
(botany, countable) A plant and its fruit of any of a few species of the genus Cucurbita, or gourd kind. - Cucurbita maxima, including hubbard squash, great winter squash, buttercup squash, and some varieties of pumpkins.
- Cucurbita argyrosperma (syn. Cucurbita mixta), cushaw squash.
- Cucurbita moschata, butternut squash, Barbary squash, China squash.
- Cucurbita pepo, most pumpkins, acorn squash, summer squash, zucchini.
- (botany) Any other similar-looking plant of other genera.
- Lagenaria siceraria (syn. Cucurbita verrucosa), calabash, long-neck squash.
- (culinary) The edible or decorative fruit of these plants, or this fruit prepared as a dish.
- We ate squash and green beans.
- French: courge
- German: (pumpkin) Kürbis
- Italian: zucca
- Portuguese: abóbora, moranga, jerimum
- Russian: кабачо́к
- Spanish: zapallo
squash (plural squashes)
- (obsolete, countable) Muskrat.
- The squash is a four-footed beast, bigger than a cat.
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