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[syn: squash, squash racquets, squash rackets]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Squash \Squash\, n.
   1. Something soft and easily crushed; especially, an unripe
      pod of pease.
      [1913 Webster]
            Not yet old enough for a man, nor young enough for a
            boy; as a squash is before 't is a peascod. --Shak.
      [1913 Webster]
   2. Hence, something unripe or soft; -- used in contempt.
      "This squash, this gentleman." --Shak.
      [1913 Webster]
   3. A sudden fall of a heavy, soft body; also, a shock of soft
      bodies. --Arbuthnot.
      [1913 Webster]
            My fall was stopped by a terrible squash. --Swift.
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   4. A game much like rackets, played in a walled court with
      soft rubber balls and bats like tennis rackets; -- called
      also squash rackets.
      [PJC]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
squash rackets
    n 1: a game played in an enclosed court by two or four players
         who strike the ball with long-handled rackets [syn:
         squash, squash racquets, squash rackets]