Definitions
a game played in an enclosed court by two or four players who strike the ball with long-handled rackets
Word origin
From Middle English squachen, squatchen, from Old French esquacher, escachier, from Vulgar Latin *excoāctiāre, from Latin ex + coāctāre. Probably influenced by Middle English quashen, quassen, from Old French esquasser, escasser (“to crush, shatter, destroy, break”), from Vulgar Latin *exquassare, from Latin ex- + quassare (“to shatter”) (see quash).
Used in a sentence
“She plays squash every Saturday.”
“Ivor had acquired more than a mile of fishing rights with the house; he was not at all a good fisherman, but one must do something; one generally, however, banged a ball with a squash-racket against a wall.”
“The bat, as a racquet used to be called, is the chief tool of the squash tradesman.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer2 curated clues
01“Crush by pressing firmly”6 letters
02“Flatten by crushing”6 letters
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