'squash rackets' definitions:
Definition of 'squash rackets'
From: WordNet
noun
A game played in an enclosed court by two or four players who strike the ball with long-handled rackets [syn: squash, squash racquets, squash rackets]
Definition of 'squash rackets'
From: GCIDE
- Squash \Squash\, n.
- 1. Something soft and easily crushed; especially, an unripe pod of pease. [1913 Webster]
- Not yet old enough for a man, nor young enough for a boy; as a squash is before 't is a peascod. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Hence, something unripe or soft; -- used in contempt. "This squash, this gentleman." --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 3. A sudden fall of a heavy, soft body; also, a shock of soft bodies. --Arbuthnot. [1913 Webster]
- My fall was stopped by a terrible squash. --Swift. [1913 Webster]
- 4. A game much like rackets, played in a walled court with soft rubber balls and bats like tennis rackets; -- called also squash rackets. [PJC]