squash: meaning and definitions

Any of various tendril-bearing plants of the genus Cucurbita, having fleshy edible fruit with a leathery rind and unisexual flowers.

The fruit of any of these plants, eaten as a vegetable.

To beat, squeeze, or press into a pulp or a flattened mass; crush. See Synonyms at crush.

To put down or suppress; quash: squash a revolt.

To silence or fluster, as with crushing words: squash a heckler.

To become crushed, flattened, or pulpy, as by pressure or impact.

To move with a splashing or sucking sound, as when walking through boggy ground.

The act or sound of squashing.

The fact or condition of being squashed.

A crushed or crowded mass: a squash of people.

Sports A racket game played in a closed walled court with a rubber ball.

Chiefly British A citrus-based soft drink.

With a squashing sound.