squash
UK/skwɒʃ//skwɔʃ/
squash noun: a sport played in a walled court with a soft rubber ball and bats like tennis racquets.
Noun (1)
squash (countable and uncountable, plural squashes)
- 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.1922, Michael Arlen, “3/19/2”, in “Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days
- A non-alcoholic drink made from a fruit-based concentrate diluted with water.
- Sure. I pour hot squash all over myself and we all have a good chuckle. Everyone except Muggins here.2006 Feb. 17, Graham Linehan, The IT Crowd, Season 1, Episode 4
- When I'm thirsty I drink squash; it tastes much nicer than plain water.
- Synonyms:
- cordial, diluting juice, water juice
- A place or a situation where people have limited space to move.
- It's a bit of a squash in this small room.
- A preparation made by placing material on a slide (flat, rectangular piece of glass), covering it and applying pressure.
- Synonyms:
- smear
- Something soft and easily crushed; especially, an unripe pod of peas.
- Something unripe or soft.
- A sudden fall of a heavy, soft body; also, a shock of soft bodies.
- An extremely one-sided, usually short, match.
- 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.Orr, James (18 August 2014), “WWE SummerSlam 2014: How Twitter reacted to John Cena vs Brock Lesnar”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), The Independent, retrieved 30 Jul 2015
Verb
squash (third-person singular simple present squashes, present participle squashing, simple past and past participle squashed)
- To beat or press into pulp or a flat mass; to crush.
- 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.
- Synonyms:
- condense
- 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.2006, Chris Rodda, Liars for Jesus, →ISBN, page 390
Interjection
squash
- 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, […]1848, The Lotus, page 40
- […] to catch all the rain […]; my boots went squash, squash, as I turned on to the high road, […]1881, Frederick Lancelot H. Morrice, The Nightless North: A Walk Across Lapland, page 74
Noun (2)
squash (countable and uncountable, plural squash or squashes)
- 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.
- Any other similar-looking plant of other genera.
- Lagenaria siceraria (syn. Cucurbita verrucosa), calabash, long-neck squash.
- The edible or decorative fruit of these plants, or this fruit prepared as a dish.
- We ate squash and green beans.
Noun (3)
squash (plural squashes)
- Muskrat.
- The squash is a four-footed beast, bigger than a cat.1705, William Dampier, A Supplement of the Voyage Round the World
Proper noun capitalized: Squash
Squash
- A surname
squash meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
squash in Hindi
- plant and its fruit of the genus Cucurbita
- स्क्वाश skvāś
squash in Tamil
- பரங்கிக்காய், சுவர்ப்பந்து, பிழி
squash in Marathi
- स्क्वॉश, स्क्वॅश, स्क्वॉश करण्यासाठी
squash in Urdu
- حلوہ کدو, پیٹھا, گودا بنا دینا, کچلنا
More languagesFewer languages
- squash in Bengali
- থেঁতলানো, পিষে ফেলা, এক প্রকার সবজি
- squash in Telugu
- స్క్వాష్, స్క్వ్యాష్, స్కువాష్
- squash in Malayalam
- കശക്കുക, ഇടിച്ചുപിഴിയുക, കശക്കിപ്പിഴിയുക, പിഴിയുക
- squash in Kannada
- ಜಜ್ಜಿದ್ದು, ಹಿಂಡಿದ್ದು, ಅಪ್ಪಚ್ಚಿ ಮಾಡಿದ್ದು, ಒಂದು ಬಗೆಯ ಚೆಂಡಾಟ
- squash in Punjabi
- ਸਕੁਐਸ਼, ਸਕਵੈਸ਼, ਸਕੌਸ਼
- squash in Gujarati
- સ્ક્વોશ, સ્ક્વૅશ, સ્ક્વૉશ
- squash in Odia
- ସ୍କ୍ୱାଶ୍, ସ୍କ୍ୱାସ୍, ସ୍କ୍ୱାସ
- squash in Nepali
- स्क्वास, स्क्वैस, स्क्वैश
- squash in Tagalog
- kandos
- squash in Malay
- skuasy
- squash in Indonesian
- skuas
- squash in Persian
- اسکواش eskuâš, کدو kadu
- squash in Vietnamese
- bóng quần, nén, ép, dồn
Examples of squash in a sentence
- The bat, as a racquet used to be called, is the chief tool of the squash tradesman.2007, James Zug, Squash: A History of the Game, Scribner, →ISBN, page 1:
- 1883, May 5 […] The words had only left his mouth when his feet slipped from under him, and with a dull, sickening thud, he went squash! into the water, waist-deep.2001, Peter Cozzens, Eyewitnesses to the Indian Wars, 1865-1890: The Struggle for Apacheria. volume one, Stackpole Books, →ISBN, page 355:
Synonyms of squash
Forms of squash
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | squashes |
| plural | squash |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | squashes |
| present participle | squashing |
| past participle | squashed |
| past | squashed |
Origin of squash
From Middle English squachen, squatchen, from Old French esquacher, escachier, from Vulgar Latin *excoāctiāre, from Latin ex + coāctāre. Probably influenced by Middle English quashen, quassen, from Old French esquasser, escasser (“to crush, shatter, destroy, break”), from Vulgar Latin *exquassare, from Latin ex- + quassare (“to shatter”) (see quash).
Shortening of Narragansett askutasquash (“[a vegetable] eaten green (or raw)”), from askut (“green, raw”) + asquash (“eaten”).
Clipping of musquash.
Words formed from squash
- Des Moines squash
- orange squash
- pepper squash
- squanter-squash
- squashable
- squash ball
- squash court
- squash player
- squash racket
- squash racquet
- squash shot
- squash tennis
- squashability
- squashberry
- squashee
- squash the beef
- squash up
- squelch
- squish
- unsquash
- wash and squash
- squashy
- acorn squash
- Arikara squash
- banana squash
- black seed squash
- button squash
- custard squash
- egg squash
- gem squash
- guinea squash
- Hubbard squash
- Japanese squash
- Lakota squash
- mango squash
- Marblehead squash
- marrow squash
- onion squash
- opo squash
- pattypan squash
- red kuri squash
- scallop squash
- Siam squash
- spaghetti squash
- squaffle
- squash and gourd bee
- squash bee
- squash beetle
- squash bug
- squash knife
- squashlike
- summer squash
- sunburst squash
- turban squash
- winter squash
- yellow squash
Phrases with squash
- squash bees
- squash bugs
- squash balls
- squash shots
- squash courts
- squash knives
- squash beetles
- squash players
- squash rackets
- squash racquets
- buttercup squash
- butternut squash
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Words that rhyme with squash
Questions about squash
- What does squash mean?
- Squash means a sport played in a walled court with a soft rubber ball and bats like tennis racquets.
- What is squash in Hindi?
- Squash in Hindi is स्क्वाश (skvāś). See Squash meaning in Hindi.
- How do you use squash in a sentence?
- The bat, as a racquet used to be called, is the chief tool of the squash tradesman.
- What part of speech is squash?
- Squash can be a noun, a verb, an interjection or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce squash?
- Squash is pronounced /skwɒʃ/ (UK).
- What is the plural of squash?
- The plural of squash is squashes.
Words near squash in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: squash (page history and authors); Squash (page history and authors); squash (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); squash (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); squash (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); squash (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); squash (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); squash (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); squash (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); squash (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); squash (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); squash (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); squash (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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