n (uncountable) A sport played in a walled court with a soft rubber ball and bats like tennis racquets.
n (UK) A soft drink made from a fruit-based concentrate diluted with water.
n A place or a situation where people have limited space to move.
n (biology) A preparation made by placing material on a slide (flat, rectangular piece of glass), covering it and applying pressure.
n (obsolete, countable) Something soft and easily crushed; especially, an unripe pod of peas.
n (obsolete, countable, derogatory) Something unripe or soft.
n (obsolete, countable) A sudden fall of a heavy, soft body; also, a shock of soft bodies.
n (slang, professional wrestling) An extremely one-sided, usually short, match.
v (transitive) To beat or press into pulp or a flat mass; to crush.
v (transitive, intransitive) To compress or restrict (oneself) into a small space; to squeeze.
v (transitive) To suppress; to force into submission.
n (botany, countable) A plant and its fruit of any of a few species of the genus Cucurbita, or gourd kind.
n Cucurbita maxima, including hubbard squash, great winter squash, buttercup squash, and some varieties of pumpkins.
n Cucurbita argyrosperma (syn. Cucurbita mixta), cushaw squash.
n Cucurbita moschata, butternut squash, Barbary squash, China squash.
n Cucurbita pepo, most pumpkins, acorn squash, summer squash, zucchini.
n (botany) Any other similar-looking plant of other genera.
n Lagenaria siceraria (syn. Cucurbita verrucosa), calabash, long-neck squash.
n (cooking) The edible or decorative fruit of these plants, or this fruit prepared as a dish.
n (obsolete, countable) Muskrat.
n A surname