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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. v. To squeeze or crush together or into a flat mass; squash.
  2. v. To emit the gurgling or sucking sound of soft mud being walked on.
  3. n. A squishing sound.
  4. n. Slang A person regarded as weak and ineffective.

Wiktionary

  1. n. A political moderate (derogatory term used by conservative activists in the 1980s)
  2. v. To squeeze, compress, or crush.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. v. To make the sound of squirting water, like that made by the feet of one walking in mud or slush; to make a kind of gushing, swashing, or splashing sound; to move with such a sound.
  2. n. A sound like that made by the feet of one walking in mud or slush; a gushing, swashing, or splashing sound; a squishing sound.

WordNet 3.0

  1. v. walk through mud or mire
  2. n. the noise of soft mud being walked on
  3. v. put (a liquid) into a container or another place by means of a squirting action

Etymologies

  1. Probably alteration of squash2.

Examples

  • “Gracer quickly decapitates it and makes a "squish" - inducing cut down the mid-line.”

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  • “Also IIRC the black woman who played one of the prisoners ("squish" in Cellblock tango) had played Velma on stage (I don't know if it was an integrated or all-black version).”

    Is it unacceptable for a white comic actor to impersonate Obama on SNL?

  • “I just want to 'squish' those two.. they're so adorable!”

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  • “Each time he tried, you could here the "squish" sound made when me moved on the seat of the chair.”

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  • “Air current wants to kind of squish it and sneak it west and now we're looking at a cone of uncertainty or probability of landfall anywhere from Houston or just south of Houston towards the Texas border.”

    CNN Transcript Sep 9, 2008

  • “Loudoun GOP Chairman Randy Minchew represents the "squish" faction.”

    Senate Leadership Shakeup?

  • “A victory by the Democrats would bring the Senate to a 23-17 GOP majority, and cut the "squish" edge in the GOP Caucus to 15-8.”

    Senate Leadership Shakeup?

  • “While a similar "squish" faction in the House of Delegates occasionally joins with Democrats to form a majority, the greatest difference between the two bodies is conservatives control a majority in the House GOP allowing them to choose the leadership, while the "squishes" have solid control of the GOP caucus and thus the leadership.”

    Senate Leadership Shakeup?

  • “Or, if you're a single syllable kinda mantra sort of person, say, "squish," which has a fish sound and really works with the holiday season.”

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  • “I had visions of my leaving and the valve busting and everything going "squish".”

    May 16th, 2002

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