A Quick and Simple Dictionary

squash

1. Noun.  (uncountable) A sport played in a walled court with a soft rubber ball and bats like tennis racquets.
2. Noun.  (British) A soft drink made from a fruit-based concentrate diluted with water.
3. Noun.  A place or a situation where people have limited space to move.
4. Noun.  (obsolete, countable) Something soft and easily crushed; especially, an unripe pod of peas.
5. Noun.  (obsolete, countable) Something unripe or soft.
6. Noun.  (obsolete, countable) A sudden fall of a heavy, soft body; also, a shock of soft bodies.
7. Verb.  (transitive) To beat or press into pulp or a flat mass; to crush.
8. Verb.  (transitive, intransitive) To compress or restrict (oneself) into a small space; to squeeze.
9. Noun.  (countable) (botany) A plant and its fruit of the genus Cucurbita, or gourd kind.
10. Noun.  The edible fruit of this plant, or this fruit prepared as a dish.
11. Noun.  (obsolete, zoo) Muskrat.