Squashes meaning : A sport played in a walled court with a soft rubber ball and bats like tennis racquets. A soft drink made from a fruit-based concentrate diluted with water. A place or a situation where people have limited space to move. Something soft and easily crushed; especially, an unripe pod of peas. Something unripe or soft. A sudden fall of a heavy, soft body; also, a shock of soft bodies. An extremely one-sided, usually short, match. To beat or press into pulp or a flat mass; to crush. To compress or restrict (oneself) into a small space; to squeeze. To suppress; to force into submission. A plant and its fruit of any of a few species of the genus Cucurbita, or gourd kind. Any other similar-looking plant of other genera. The edible or decorative fruit of these plants, or this fruit prepared as a dish. Muskrat.