Squash

·noun An American animal allied to the weasel.

II. Squash ·noun Hence, something unripe or soft;

— used in contempt.

III. Squash ·noun A plant and its fruit of the genus Cucurbita, or gourd kind.

IV. Squash ·noun A sudden fall of a heavy, soft body; also, a shock of soft bodies.

V. Squash ·noun Something soft and easily crushed; especially, an unripe pod of pease.

VI. Squash ·vi To beat or press into pulp or a flat mass; to Crush.

VII. Squash ·add. ·noun A game much like rackets, played in a walled court with soft rubber balls and bats like tennis rackets.