Definition/Meaning of squash

• English - Noun: squash (countable and uncountable, plural squashes) (uncountable) A sport played in a walled court with a soft rubber ball and bats like tennis racquets. She plays squash every Saturday. 2007, James Zug, Squash: A History of the Game, Scribner, →ISBN, page 1: The bat, as a racquet used to be called, is the chief tool of the squash tradesman. (countable, uncountable) A non-alcoholic drink made…
• English - Verb: squash (third-person singular simple present squashes, present participle squashing, simple past and past participle squashed) (transitive) To beat or press into pulp or a flat mass; to crush . (intransitive, transitive) To compress or restrict (oneself) into a small space; to squeeze . We all managed to squash into Mum's tiny car. Somehow, she squashed all her books into her backpack, which was…
• English - Interjection: squash (obsolete) The sound of something relatively heavy splashing or squelching into water. 1881, Frederick Lancelot H. Morrice, The Nightless North: A Walk Across Lapland, page 74: […] to catch all the rain […]; my boots went squash, squash, as I turned on to the high road, […] 1848, The Lotus, page 40: […] rain, too, had lately fallen, and had decidedly not evaporated, since, at every step,…
• English - Etymology: Etymology 1. 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). Etymology 2. Shortening…
• English - Pronunciation: (UK) IPA: /skwɒʃ/ (US) IPA: /skwɔʃ/ (cot caught merger) IPA: /skwɑʃ/ IPA: /skwɔɹʃ/ Rhymes: -ɒʃ