Definition of "squash"

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

(UK) A soft drink made from a fruit-based concentrate diluted with water.  quotations  examples

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

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

(obsolete, countable) Something soft and easily crushed; especially, an unripe pod of peas.

(obsolete, countable, derogatory) Something unripe or soft.

(obsolete, countable) A sudden fall of a heavy, soft body; also, a shock of soft bodies.

(slang, professional wrestling) An extremely one-sided, usually short, match.  quotations

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

(transitive, intransitive) To compress or restrict (oneself) into a small space; to squeeze.  examples

(transitive) To suppress; to force into submission.  quotations  examples

(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.  examples

2. Cucurbita argyrosperma (syn. Cucurbita mixta), cushaw squash.  examples

3. Cucurbita moschata, butternut squash, Barbary squash, China squash.  examples

4. Cucurbita pepo, most pumpkins, acorn squash, summer squash, zucchini.  examples

(botany) Any other similar-looking plant of other genera.

1. Lagenaria siceraria (syn. Cucurbita verrucosa), calabash, long-neck squash.  examples

(cooking) The edible or decorative fruit of these plants, or this fruit prepared as a dish.  examples

(obsolete, countable) Muskrat.  quotations