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Definition of Squash
Squash

A game much like rackets, played in a walled court with soft rubber balls and bats like tennis rackets.

An American animal allied to the weasel.

A plant and its fruit of the genus Cucurbita, or gourd kind.

To beat or press into pulp or a flat mass; to crush.

Something soft and easily crushed; especially, an unripe pod of pease.

Hence, something unripe or soft; -- used in contempt.

A sudden fall of a heavy, soft body; also, a shock of soft bodies.

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Squash Quotations

Women: You can't live with them, and you can't get them to dress up in a skimpy little Nazi costume and beat you with a warm squash or something.
Emo Philips

It is not all bad, this getting old, ripening. After the fruit has got its growth it should juice up and mellow. God forbid I should live long enough to ferment and rot and fall to the ground in a squash.
Josh Billings

Squash - that's not exercise, it's flagellation.
Noel Coward

Dive on them and squash them if you must.
Jeremy Taylor

I took all my wax studies and threw them in the fire... that's the way it is when something unpleasant happens to me. I take my hammer and I squash a figure.
Camille Claudel

Squash has the credentials to become an olympic event and our goal is to see the sport in the 2008 Beijing Olympics. We are working towards this and will keep trying even if our bid is not successful.
Jahangir Khan

I used to play a lot of racket sports, tennis and squash.
Jason Statham

You know, when you get your first asparagus, or your first acorn squash, or your first really good tomato of the season, those are the moments that define the cook's year. I get more excited by that than anything else.
Mario Batali

Everything is changing in squash. Lots of television coverage and the game has become very professional.
Jahangir Khan

Squash was my livelihood and as in business, I had to stay on top.
Jahangir Khan

Squash Translations

squash in Afrikaans is pampoen, muurbal
squash in Dutch is pompoen
squash in French is potiron
squash in Italian is succo
squash in Spanish is aplastar


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