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Squash

noun

Any of numerous annual trailing plants of the genus Cucurbita grown for their fleshy edible fruits. Synonym: squash vine.

Edible fruit of a squash plant; eaten as a vegetable.

A game played in an enclosed court by two or four players who strike the ball with long-handled rackets. Synonyms: squash rackets, squash racquets.

verb

(past & past part. squashed; pres. part. squashing)

To compress with violence, out of natural shape or condition. Synonyms: crush, mash, squeeze, squelch. "Squeeze a lemon"

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"Squash" Quotes from Famous Books

... was an early luncheon," the grandmother said, discontentedly. "She was playing squash, or tennis, ...

— The Beloved Woman • Kathleen Norris

... ornamented with hanging garlands of various climbing vegetables, both shrubs and plants. One of these had white flowers, each as big as a small funnel, the tube five or six inches in length, and not thicker than a tobacco-pipe. It was curious to observe the wild squash, (a species of cucurbita,) which grew upon the lofty limbs of the trees: its yellow fruit, somewhat of the size and shape of a large orange, pendant over the water. In some parts there were steep cliffs on each side of the river. During the middle of the day the weather was so intensely ...

— Travels in North America, From Modern Writers • William Bingley

... there was a lot in his record wasn't meant for the newspapers," continued Cargan reflectively. "And it didn't get there. Nap was lucky. He had it on the reformers there. They couldn't squash him with the power ...

— Seven Keys to Baldpate • Earl Derr Biggers

... labour of months go for naught in the blight of an evening's frost, or the sweep of a prairie fire. So here on this virgin isle, in soil whose sod had never been turned, they sowed from the bins of the slumbering ship. Wheat and oats and flax, brought from the Argentina plains; potatoes, squash and beet-root; even beans and peas were tried, but with small hope. And there were women ready to till the soil and work the gardens, women to draw the strangely fashioned ploughshares as willing beasts of burden, to ...

— West Wind Drift • George Barr McCutcheon

... phenomenal squash make up for all that?" she asked. "It would to me. I'm dying to see the phenomenal squash, and the ...

— A Daughter of To-Day • Sara Jeannette Duncan (aka Mrs. Everard Cotes)

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