What is the meaning of Squash?

  • (n.) A game much like rackets, played in a walled court with soft rubber balls and bats like tennis rackets.
  • (n.) A sudden fall of a heavy, soft body; also, a shock of soft bodies.
  • (n.) Something soft and easily crushed; especially, an unripe pod of pease.
  • (n.) An American animal allied to the weasel.
  • (v.i.) To beat or press into pulp or a flat mass; to crush.
  • (n.) Hence, something unripe or soft; -- used in contempt.
  • (n.) A plant and its fruit of the genus Cucurbita or gourd kind.
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