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squash

/skwɔʃ/ noun B2
  1. A sport played in a walled court with a soft rubber ball and bats like tennis racquets. (uncountable) · She plays squash every Saturday.
  2. A non-alcoholic drink made from a fruit-based concentrate diluted with water. (countable, uncountable) · When I'm thirsty I drink squash; it tastes much nicer than plain water.
  3. A place or a situation where people have limited space to move. (countable, uncountable) · It's a bit of a squash in this small room.
  4. A preparation made by placing material on a slide (flat, rectangular piece of glass), covering it and applying pressure. (countable, uncountable)
  5. An extremely one-sided, usually short, match. (countable, slang, uncountable)

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Words, meanings, pronunciations and translations from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); how common each word is from wordfreq. Made into this dictionary by FluentPlex.