Squash
Last Updated: January 2, 2026 at 12:30 PM
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Definition of Squash
Noun
- A sport played in a walled court with a soft rubber ball and bats like tennis racquets.
"She plays squash every Saturday."
- A non-alcoholic drink made from a fruit-based concentrate diluted with water or milk.
"When I'm thirsty I drink squash; it tastes much nicer than plain water."
- A place or a situation where people have limited space to move.
"It's a bit of a squash in this small room."
- A preparation made by placing material on a slide (flat, rectangular piece of glass), covering it and applying pressure.
- Something soft and easily crushed; especially, an unripe pod of peas.
Verb
Interjection
- The sound of something relatively heavy splashing or squelching into water.
Noun
- A plant and its fruit of any of a few species of the genus Cucurbita, or gourd kind. Cucurbita maxima, including hubbard squash, great winter squash, buttercup squash, and some varieties of pumpkins. Cucurbita argyrosperma (syn. Cucurbita mixta), cushaw squash. Cucurbita moschata, butternut squash, Barbary squash, China squash. Cucurbita pepo, most pumpkins, acorn squash, summer squash, zucchini.
- Cucurbita maxima, including hubbard squash, great winter squash, buttercup squash, and some varieties of pumpkins.
- Cucurbita argyrosperma (syn. Cucurbita mixta), cushaw squash.
- Cucurbita moschata, butternut squash, Barbary squash, China squash.
- Cucurbita pepo, most pumpkins, acorn squash, summer squash, zucchini.