squash

Short definition from Wiktionary

Noun

1. 1
   A sport played in a walled court with a soft rubber ball and bats like tennis racquets.
2. 2
   A non-alcoholic drink made from a fruit-based concentrate diluted with water or milk.
3. 3
   A place or a situation where people have limited space to move.
4. 4
   A preparation made by placing material on a slide (flat, rectangular piece of glass), covering it and applying pressure.
5. 5
   Something soft and easily crushed; especially, an unripe pod of peas.
6. 6
   Something unripe or soft.
7. 7
   A sudden fall of a heavy, soft body; also, a shock of soft bodies.
8. 8
   An extremely one-sided, usually short, match.
9. 9
   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.
10. 10
    A plant and its fruit of any of a few species of the genus Cucurbita, or gourd kind: Cucurbita argyrosperma (syn. Cucurbita mixta), cushaw squash.
11. 11
    A plant and its fruit of any of a few species of the genus Cucurbita, or gourd kind: Cucurbita moschata, butternut squash, Barbary squash, China squash.
12. 12
    A plant and its fruit of any of a few species of the genus Cucurbita, or gourd kind: Cucurbita pepo, most pumpkins, acorn squash, summer squash, zucchini.
13. 13
    Any other similar-looking plant of other genera.
14. 14
    Any other similar-looking plant of other genera: Lagenaria siceraria (syn. Cucurbita verrucosa), calabash, long-neck squash.
15. 15
    The edible or decorative fruit of these plants, or this fruit prepared as a dish.
16. 16
    Muskrat.

Verb

1. 1
   To beat or press into pulp or a flat mass; to crush.
2. 2
   To compress or restrict (oneself) into a small space; to squeeze.
3. 3
   To suppress; to force into submission.

Interjection

1. 1
   The sound of something relatively heavy splashing or squelching into water.

Proper noun

1. 1
   A surname