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A sport played in a walled court with a soft rubber ball and bats like tennis racquets.

(type of beverage) A non-alcoholic drink made from a fruit-based concentrate diluted with water or milk. +

A place or a situation where people have limited space to move.

(biology) A preparation made by placing material on a slide {{gloss|flat, rectangular piece of glass}}, covering it and applying pressure.Edwin Benzel Steen, ''Dictionary of Biology,'' New York: Barnes & Noble, 1971.[https://archive.org/details/dictionaryofbiol00edwi/page/523/mode/1up?q=squash] +

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

(pejorative) Something unripe or soft.

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

(professional wrestling) An extremely one-sided, usually short, match.

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

To compress or restrict (oneself) into a small space; to squeeze.

To suppress; to force into submission.

(plant) A plant and its fruit of any of a few species of the genus (genus), or gourd kind.

(species), including {{vern|hubbard squash}}, {{vern|great winter squash}}, buttercup squash, and some varieties of pumpkins.

(species) (syn. (species)), {{vern|cushaw squash}}.

(species), butternut squash, {{vern|Barbary squash}}, {{vern|China squash}}.

(species), most pumpkins, acorn squash, summer squash, zucchini.

(botany) Any other similar-looking plant of other genera.

(species) (syn. (species)), calabash, {{vern|long-neck squash}}.

(culinary) The edible or decorative fruit of these plants, or this fruit prepared as a dish.

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