(skwosh) v.t.
1. To beat or press into a pulp or soft mass; crush.
2. To quell or suppress.
—v.i.
3. To be smashed or squashed.
4. To make a splashing or sucking sound.
—noun
1. A soft or overripe object; also, a crushed mass.
2. The sudden fall of a heavy, soft, or bursting body; also, the sound made by such a fall.
3. The sucking, squelching sound made by walking through ooze or mud.
4. Either of two games played on an indoor court with rackets and a ball. In one (squash rackets) a slow rubber ball is used; in the other (squash tennis), a livelier, smaller ball.
5. A beverage of which one ingredient is a fruit juice: lemon squash.
—adverb With a squelching, oozy sound. [<OF esquasser, ult. <L ex- thoroughly + quassare crush]
—squash′er noun

(skwosh) noun
1. The edible fruit of various trailing annuals (genus Cucurbita) of the gourd family.
2. The plant that bears it. [<Algonquian. Cf. Massachuset askootasquash, lit., eaten raw.]