Squash may refer to:
Sports
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Squash (sport)
Squash is a racket-and- ball sport played by two or four players in a four-walled court with a small, hollow, rubber ball. The players alternate in striking the ball with their rackets onto the playable surfaces of the four walls of the court. T ...
, the high-speed racquet sport also known as squash racquets
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Squash (professional wrestling)
Professional wrestling has accrued a considerable amount of jargon throughout its existence. Much of it stems from the industry's origins in the days of carnivals and circuses. In the past, professional wrestlers used such terms in the presence o ...
, an extremely one-sided match in professional wrestling
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Squash tennis
Squash tennis is an American variant of squash, but played with a ball and racquets that are closer to the equipment used for lawn tennis, and with somewhat different rules. For younger players the game offers the complexity of squash and the sp ...
, a game similar to squash but played with equipment more related to that of tennis
* Volley squash, a form of volleyball played within a squash court or similar sized enclosed space
Food and beverages
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Squash (drink)
Squash (sometimes known as cordial in British English, dilute in Hiberno English, and diluting juice in Scottish English) is a non-alcoholic beverage with concentrated syrup used in beverage making. It is usually fruit-flavoured, made from fru ...
, a drink made of concentrated fruit syrup or fructose
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Squash (fruit)
''Cucurbita'' (Latin for gourd) is a genus of herbaceous fruits in the gourd family, Cucurbitaceae (also known as ''cucurbits'' or ''cucurbi''), native to the Andes and Mesoamerica. Five edible species are grown and consumed for their flesh and ...
, the fruit of vines of the genus ''Cucurbita''
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Tuborg Squash
Tuborg is a Danish brewing company founded in 1873 on a harbour in Hellerup, an area North of Copenhagen, Denmark. Since 1970 it has been part of the Carlsberg Group. The brewery's flagship, the Tuborg pilsner, was brewed for the first time i ...
, a Danish orange-flavoured soft drink
Other uses
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''Squash'' (film), an Academy Award-nominated short film about a squash game
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SquashFS
Squashfs is a compressed read-only file system for Linux. Squashfs compresses files, inodes and directories, and supports block sizes from 4 KiB up to 1 MiB for greater compression. Several compression algorithms are supported. Squashfs is al ...
, a read-only file system
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SQUASH
Squash may refer to:
Sports
* Squash (sport), the high-speed racquet sport also known as squash racquets
* Squash (professional wrestling), an extremely one-sided match in professional wrestling
* Squash tennis, a game similar to squash but pla ...
- ''Squatters' Action for Secure Homes,'' an activist group in the United Kingdom
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