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squash

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1. squash - Noun

2. squash - Verb

Meaning

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.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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If you think squash is a competitive activity, try flower arranging. Alan Bennett

Anyway, there is one thing I have learned and that is not to dress uncomfortably, in styles which hurt: winklepicker shoes that cripple your feet and tight pants that squash your balls. Indian clothes are better. George Harrison

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

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

The bittermelon is not yet cooked and the squash jumped in. Filipino Proverb

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