Squash

/skwɒʃ/ · noun

Meaning

(uncountable) A sport played in a walled court with a soft rubber ball and bats like tennis racquets..

Definitions by Sense

1. (uncountable) A sport played in a walled court with a soft rubber ball and bats like tennis racquets.
2. A non-alcoholic drink made from a fruit-based concentrate diluted with water or milk.
3. A place or a situation where people have limited space to move.
4. (biology) A preparation made by placing material on a slide (flat, rectangular piece of glass), covering it and applying pressure.
5. (obsolete, countable) Something soft and easily crushed; especially, an unripe pod of peas.
6. (obsolete, countable, derogatory) Something unripe or soft.
7. (obsolete, countable) A sudden fall of a heavy, soft body; also, a shock of soft bodies.
8. (slang, professional wrestling) An extremely one-sided, usually short, match.

Example Sentences

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.

The bat, as a racquet used to be called, is the chief tool of the squash tradesman.

Sure. I pour hot squash all over myself and we all have a good chuckle. Everyone except Muggins here.

When I'm thirsty I drink squash; it tastes much nicer than plain water.

It's a bit of a squash in this small room.

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.

Somehow, she squashed all her books into her backpack, which was now too heavy to carry.

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• squashes
• squashing
• squashed
• squash

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