Squash

Squash may refer to:

Squash (plant), the fruit of vines of the genus Cucurbita
Squash (sport), an indoor racket sport formerly called "squash racquets"
Squash tennis, a similar game but played with equipment related more to that of tennis
Squash (2002 film), an Academy Award-nominated short film about a squash game
Squash (drink), a drink made of concentrated fruit syrup or fructose
Squash (professional wrestling), an extremely one-sided match in professional wrestling
SquashFS, a read-only file system

Squashes generally refer to four species of the genus Cucurbita native to the Mexico and Central America, also called marrows depending Squash is a racquet sport that was formerly called squash racquets, a reference to the "squashable" soft ball used in the game (compared with the Squash tennis is an American variant of squash racquets, but played with a ball and racquets that are closer to the equipment used for lawn tennis, and Squash is a 2002 French Short film (27 min / 29 min runtime directed and written by Lionel Bailliu. Squash (sometimes called cordial; however see the definitions below is a highly-sweetened (and often fruit-based Concentrate, which is mixed with a liquid most In Professional wrestling, a squash is an extremely short match in which one performer is booked as defeating another easily and quickly not out of luck but due to his overwhelming Squashfs (sfs is a compressed read-only File system for Linux.

Dictionary

-noun

(uncountable) A sport played in a walled court with a soft rubber ball and bats like tennis rackets.
(countable) (botany) A plant and its fruit of the genus Cucurbita, or gourd kind.
(UK) A soft drink made from a fruit-based concentrate diluted with water.
A place or a situation where people have limited space to move.
(obsolete, zoo, countable) A muskrat, short form of musquash.
(obsolete) (countable) Something soft and easily crushed; especially, an unripe pod of peas.
(obsolete) (countable) Something unripe or soft; -- used in contempt.
(countable) (obsolete) A sudden fall of a heavy, soft body; also, a shock of soft bodies.

-verb

(transitive) To beat or press into pulp or a flat mass; to crush.
(transitive) To compress or restrict into a small space; to squeeze.
(intransitive) To become compressed or restricted by contact with others.

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