Squash most often refers to:
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Squash (sport)
Squash, sometimes called squash rackets, is a List of racket sports, racket ball game, sport played by two (singles) or four players (doubles) in a four-walled court with a small, hollow, rubber ball. The players alternate striking the ball with ...
, the high-speed racquet sport also known as squash racquets
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Squash (plant)
is a genus of Herbaceous plant, herbaceous fruits in the gourd family (biology), family, Cucurbitaceae (also known as ''cucurbits'' or ''cucurbi''), native to the Andes and Mesoamerica. Five edible species are grown and consumed for their fles ...
, the fruit of vines of the genus ''Cucurbita''
Squash may also refer to:
Sports
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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 carnival
Carnival (known as Shrovetide in certain localities) is a festive season that o ...
, an extremely one-sided match in professional wrestling
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Squash tennis
Squash tennis is an American variant of squash, one played with a ball and racquets that are more similar to the equipment used for lawn tennis, and with somewhat different rules. The game offers the complexity of squash and the speed of racqu ...
, a game similar to squash but played with equipment more related to that of tennis
Food and beverages
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Squash (drink)
Squash (sometimes known as cordial in British English, dilute in Hiberno English, diluting juice in Scottish English, and water juice in the Northern Isles of Scotland), is a non-alcoholic beverage with syrup used in beverage making. It is usual ...
, a drink made of concentrated fruit syrup or fructose
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Tuborg Squash
Tuborg is a Danish brewing company founded in 1873 on a harbour in Hellerup, to the 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 ...
, 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 ...
, a read-only file system
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SQUASH, Squatters' Action for Secure Homes, an activist group in the United Kingdom
See also
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