squeeze
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Is squeeze a Scrabble word?
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Definition
verb (English)
1. (transitive) To apply pressure to from two or more sides at once.Examples: "I squeezed the ball between my hands."; "Please don't squeeze the toothpaste tube in the middle."; ""Over there—by the rock," Steele muttered, with his brush between his teeth, squeezing out raw sienna, and keeping his eyes fixed on Betty Flanders's back."Synonyms: compresstransitive
2. (transitive) To embrace closely; to give a tight hug to.transitive
3. (ambitransitive) To fit into a tight place.Examples: "I managed to squeeze the car into that parking space."; "Can you squeeze through that gap?"; "I sqeezed myself through the crowd."ambitransitive
4. (transitive) To remove something with difficulty, or apparent difficulty.Examples: "He squeezed some money out of his wallet."transitive
5. (transitive) To put in a difficult position by presenting two or more choices.Examples: "I'm being squeezed between my job and my volunteer work."; "At a time when Mr. Cameron is being squeezed from both sides — from the right by members of his own party and by the anti-immigrant, anti-Europe U.K. Independence Party, and from the left by his Liberal Democrat coalition partners — the move seemed uncharacteristically clunky."transitive
6. (transitive, figurative) To oppress with hardships, burdens, or taxes; to harass.Examples: "a Civil War where People must expect to be crush'd and squeez'd in the Consequence"; "However he lost out, as other business interests whom he had alienated by his efforts to squeeze every penny of profit from the canal, supported the construction of the railway."figurativelytransitive
noun (English)
1. (figuratively) A difficult position.Examples: "I'm in a tight squeeze right now when it comes to my free time."; "There is a growing recognition that, as the population ages and the squeeze on NHS resources continues, better ways of supporting older people outside hospital need to be developed."figuratively
2. (slang) A romantic partner.Examples: "I want to be your main squeeze."; "“No, Mona. Her new squeeze is one of Wage's boys.”"; "He spent nights cruising queer bars near the pad, saw Wiltsie at the dives, but always in the company of his squeeze, a guy he called 'Duane.'"slang
3. (slang) An illicit alcoholic drink made by squeezing Sterno through cheesecloth, etc., and mixing the result with fruit juice.slang
4. (baseball) The act of bunting in an attempt to score a runner from third.Examples: "The game ended in exciting fashion with a failed squeeze."
5. (card games) A play that forces an opponent to discard a card that gives up one or more tricks.
6. (caving) A traversal of a narrow passage.Examples: "It was a tight squeeze, but I got through to the next section of the cave."; "The most notorious squeezes have names: the Gun Barrel, Jam Crack, the Electric Armpit Crawl, Devil's Pinch."; "Prior to going back out to Mystery Cave again we spent a lot of time preparing. We made a squeeze box, which is a wooden box the opening of which can be adjusted in size. We could then crawl through the opening and measure to see how tight of a squeeze we could fit through."
Definition source: Wiktionary