squash

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[[t]skwɒʃ, skwɔʃ[/t]]

v. t.

1) to press into a flat mass or pulp; crush

2) to suppress; quash

3) to press forcibly into a small space; cram

4) to become pressed into a flat mass or pulp

5) to make a splashing sound; splash

6) to squeeze or crowd; crush

7) an act or instance of squashing or being squashed

8) the sound of squashing

9) a squashed mass

10) spo Also called squash′ rac`quets. a game for two or four persons, similar to racquets but played on a smaller court and with a racket having a round head and a long handle

See illus. at racket II

11) spo Also called squash′ ten`nis. a game for two persons, resembling squash racquets except that the ball is larger and the racket is shaped like a tennis racket

12) brit. a beverage made from fruit juice and soda water:

lemon squash[/ex]

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Etymology: 1555–65; < MF esquasser < VL *exquassāre. See ex- I, quash squash′er, n. II

squash

[[t]skwɒʃ, skwɔʃ[/t]] n. pl. squash•es, (esp. collectively)squash.

1) pln the fruit of any of various vinelike, tendril-bearing plants belonging to the genus Curcurbita, of the gourd family, as C. moschata or C. pepo: used as a vegetable

2) pln any of these plants

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Etymology: 1635–45, amer.; < Narragansett (E sp.) askútasquash (pl.)