squash

• (UK) IPA^(key): /skwɒʃ/
• (US) IPA^(key): /skwɔʃ/
• (cot–caught merger) IPA^(key): /skwɑʃ/
• (rural US, intrusive R) IPA^(key): /skwɔɹʃ/

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• Rhymes: -ɒʃ

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).

squash (countable and uncountable, plural squashes)

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

   She plays squash every Saturday.

   • 1922, Michael Arlen, “3/19/2”, in “Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days‎^[2]:

     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.

3. A non-alcoholic drink made from a fruit-based concentrate diluted with water or milk.

   Synonyms: cordial, (uncommon) high juice

   • 2006 Feb. 17, Graham Linehan, The IT Crowd, Season 1, Episode 4:

     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.

4. A place or a situation where people have limited space to move.

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

5. (biology) A preparation made by placing material on a slide (flat, rectangular piece of glass), covering it and applying pressure.^[1]

   Synonym: smear

6. (obsolete, countable) Something soft and easily crushed; especially, an unripe pod of peas.
7. (obsolete, countable, derogatory) Something unripe or soft.
8. (obsolete, countable) A sudden fall of a heavy, soft body; also, a shock of soft bodies.
9. (slang, professional wrestling) An extremely one-sided, usually short, match.
   • 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)‎^[3], The Independent, retrieved 30 July 2015

     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.

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:squash.

• quash

• racketball

squash (third-person singular simple present squashes, present participle squashing, simple past and past participle squashed)

1. (transitive) To beat or press into pulp or a flat mass; to crush.
2. (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.

3. (transitive) To suppress; to force into submission.
   • 2006, Chris Rodda, Liars for Jesus, →ISBN, page 390:

     A somewhat popular myth about the Whiskey Rebellion is that Washington personally led the troops into western Pennsylvania and squashed the rebellion.

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:squash.

• (to compress): condense, press; see also Thesaurus:compress

• squash up
• squashy
• squish

Shortening of Narragansett askutasquash (“[a vegetable] eaten green (or raw)”), from askut (“green, raw”) +‎ asquash (“eaten”).^[2]

squash (countable and uncountable, plural squash or squashes)

2. (botany, countable) A plant and its fruit of any of a few species of the genus Cucurbita, or gourd kind.
   1. Cucurbita maxima, including hubbard squash, great winter squash, buttercup squash, and some varieties of pumpkins.
   2. Cucurbita argyrosperma (syn. Cucurbita mixta), cushaw squash.
   3. Cucurbita moschata, butternut squash, Barbary squash, China squash.
   4. Cucurbita pepo, most pumpkins, acorn squash, summer squash, zucchini.
3. (botany) Any other similar-looking plant of other genera.
   1. Lagenaria siceraria (syn. Cucurbita verrucosa), calabash, long-neck squash.
4. (cooking) The edible or decorative fruit of these plants, or this fruit prepared as a dish.

   We ate squash and green beans.

• pumpkin

Clipping of musquash.

squash (plural squashes)

1. (obsolete, countable) Muskrat.
   • 1705, William Dampier, A Supplement of the Voyage Round the World:

     The squash is a four-footed beast, bigger than a cat.

• “squash”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• squash on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Cucurbita on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Cucurbita on Wikispecies.Wikispecies

Borrowed from English squash.

• IPA^(key): /es̺kwaʃ/ [es̺.kwaʃ]
• Rhymes: -es̺kwaʃ, -aʃ

squash inan

1. squash (sport)

• “squash”, in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia [Dictionary of the Basque Academy] (in Basque), Euskaltzaindia [Royal Academy of the Basque Language]

Unadapted borrowing from English squash.

• IPA^(key): [ˈskvoʃ]
• Rhymes: -oʃ
• Hyphenation: squash

squash m inan (relational adjective squashový)

1. (sports) squash

• “squash”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2025

squash c (singular definite squashen, plural indefinite squash or squasher)

1. squash (sport)

• “squash” in Den Danske Ordbog

From English squash.

• IPA^(key): /ˈskuɑs/, [ˈs̠kuɑ̝s̠]
• IPA^(key): /ˈskuɑʃ/, [ˈs̠kuɑ̝ʃ]
• Rhymes: -uɑs
• Syllabification^(key): squ‧ash
• Hyphenation^(key): squ‧ash

squash

1. (sports) squash

   Synonym: kössi

• “squash”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[4] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 3 July 2023

Borrowed from English squash.

• IPA^(key): /skwaʃ/

squash m (plural squashs)

1. (sports) (uncountable) squash

   jouer au squash ― to play squash

2. squash game

   On s'est fait deux squashs aujourd'hui.

   We've played two games of squash today.

3. squash court

   La ville a construit trois squashs municipaux.

   The town has built three municipal squash courts.

• “squash”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• skvåsj

Borrowed from English squash.

• IPA^(key): /skʋɔʂ/
• Rhymes: -ɔʂ

squash m (definite singular squashen, indefinite plural squasher, definite plural squashene)

1. squash (fruit)
2. squash (sport)
3. squash (soft drink)

• skvåsj

Borrowed from English squash.

• IPA^(key): /skʋɔʂ/
• Rhymes: -ɔʂ

squash m (definite singular squashen, indefinite plural squashar, definite plural squashane)

1. squash (fruit)
2. squash (sport)
3. squash (soft drink)

Unadapted borrowing from English squash.

• IPA^(key): /ˈskwɔʂ/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ɔʂ
• Syllabification: squash

squash m inan

1. squash (sport)

• squash in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Unadapted borrowing from English squash.

squash m (uncountable)

1. squash (sport)

• “squash”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025

Borrowed from English squash.

• IPA^(key): [skvɔʃ]

squash m inan (genitive singular squashu, declension pattern of stroj)

1. squash (sport)

• squashový

• “squash”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2025

• IPA^(key): /esˈkwaʃ/ [esˈkwaʃ]
• Rhymes: -aʃ
• Syllabification: squash

squash m (uncountable)

1. squash (sport)

• “squash”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024

squash c

1. (sports) squash

• squashbana
• squashboll
• squashracket

squash c

1. (botany) squash (plant and fruit)

   Synonym: zucchini

• squash in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• squash in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• squash in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)