Definition of squash:
(n) :
a game much like rackets, played in a walled court with soft rubber balls and bats like tennis rackets; a plant and its fruit of the genus
Cucurbita, or
gourd kind
"note: The species are much confused. The long-neck squash is called Cucurbita verrucosa, the Barbary or China squash, C. moschata, and the great winter squash, C. maxima, but the distinctions are not clear."
(v) :
to beat or press into pulp or a flat mass; to
crush