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| 1. n. A sport played in a walled court with a soft rubber ball and bats like tennis racquets. | |
| 2. n. (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. | |
| 3. n. A place or a situation where people have limited space to move. | |
| It's a bit of a squash in this small room. | |
| 4. n. (obsolete) Something soft and easily crushed; especially, an unripe pod of peas. | |
| 5. n. (obsolete, pejorative) Something unripe or soft. | |
| 6. n. (obsolete) A sudden fall of a heavy, soft body; also, a shock of soft bodies. | |
| 7. n. (slang) An extremely one-sided, usually short, match. | |
| 8. v. To beat or press into pulp or a flat mass; to crush. | |
| 9. v. (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. | |
| 10. v. To suppress; to force into submission. | |
| 11. n. (botany) A plant and its fruit of any of a few species of the genus Cucurbita, or gourd kind. | |
| 12. n. Cucurbita maxima, including hubbard squash, (vern, great winter squash), vern, buttercup squash, and some varieties of pumpkins. | |
| 13. n. (syn.), cushaw squash. | |
| 14. n. Cucurbita moschata, butternut squash, Barbary squash, (vern, China squash). | |
| 15. n. Cucurbita pepo, most pumpkins, acorn squash, summer squash, zucchini. | |
| 16. n. (botany) Any other similar-looking plant of other genera. | |
| 17. n. Lagenaria siceraria (syn.), calabash, long-neck squash. | |
| 18. n. (culinary) The edible or decorative fruit of these plants, or this fruit prepared as a dish. | |
| We ate squash and green beans. | |
| 19. n. (obsolete) Muskrat. | |
