Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • transitive verb To squash or squeeze.

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  • verb informal squash, squeeze
  • verb informal To be squashed or squeezed; to squish.

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Imitative.]

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Examples

  • This was in Illinois, it was arctic cold most of the time, so I had to squoosh her into the little one person shower enclosure to shampoo her off.

    The Nervous Breakdown 2010

  • He uses it to squoosh meat and fish when cooking it at high heat.

    The Nervous Breakdown 2010

  • Nihilist: Yeah and maybe we stomp on it and squoosh it, Lebowski.

    Steve Stifler is a Twittering Nihilist with a Widget Ben Barren 2007

  • Also I don't use a bag - just dribbled the oil & balsalmic on and then squoosh it around with my hands.

    Recipe for Roasted Green Beans with Mushrooms, Balsamic, and Parmesan Kalyn Denny 2009

  • That said, knowing how hard most good cheeses are to cut they're either hard or they squoosh, I can't imagine what a pain those big ol' stacks o' cheese were to cut under the pressure of 200 guests all ravening for a bit of fromage.

    Who Cut the Cheese? 2009

  • Every day I have a list of 20 things to do -- with only time to do 10 things -- and yet I seem to squoosh in 30 things.

    Karen Salmansohn: Stop Working Longer Hours! Start Working Wiser Hours! 2008

  • My favourite it the Magpie- my friend made a film about them a couple of years ago and i'm in it saying 'they're like English parrots don't you think?' and then going on to show how I think they have really great bums that you just want to squoosh your face in.

    It's a Giveaway!!!! Katy 2008

  • You can take the pieces apart or squoosh them together.

    Archive 2007-07-01 2007

  • Whisk well, then dump in the meat, bread crumbs and the roux and wash your hands so you can just get in there and squoosh stuff around.

    mondo gumbo meatloaf Pat 2006

  • He didn't notice that her expression, as she looked back at him, was the way you squint at a roach just before you squoosh it.

    Manhattan Is My Beat Deaver, Jeffery 1989

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