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Example sentences for: squash
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"Sting really likes squash soup.
The obvious method of doing this is to make the term squash official, thus eliminating the identity problem and giving the game the distinctiveness it deserves.
Technically, there is no official game called squash: it is merely a convenient clipped usage.
I went to high school--a small school with only a minority of Italians--with a girl named Pochintesta ( poco little, in in, testa head), another named Zucchi (a plural form of zucca squash, or, colloquially, head; Hanks and Hodges say this name was often given to a person of scarce intelligence, as in pumpkinhead), one boy named Chiappa (buttock), and another named Chiappinelli (which may be either an extended diminutive of Chiappa or the diminutive of chiappino , which Battaglia defines as a type of ape).
Some may consider this sheer perversity; however, I have a feeling that the fault lies with those two well-meaning gentlemen from Scarsdale, who, in labeling their unique game, neglected to suggest that it combines the skills of squash and tennis.