squoze

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UK/skwəʊz/US/skwoʊz/

A form of squeeze — To apply pressure (to something) from two or more sides at once.

Scrabble 24

Meanings

verb
  1. dialectalhumorousnonstandardparticiplepastsimple past and past participle of squeeze

    Just when you think we squoze (yes, that’s a word) the blogosphere dry,

    2009 March 9, John DeNardo, “SF Signal Welcomes Pete Tzinski”, in SF Signal, archived from the original on 16 Jun 2012
    3 more examples

    Good Gawd, I've never felt a stop like that before. It was as though a rubber band had tightened and pulled us up against ten yards squoze into one, so that you didn't hardly know it.

    1923, Ernest Bramah [pseudonym; Ernest Brammah Smith], “(please specify the page)”, in The Eyes of Max Carrados, London: Grant Richards, →OCLC

    I picked at it, and I squoze it and so forth and messed myself up a little bit.

    1985 August 5, Ronald Reagan https://www.reaganlibrary.gov/archives/speech/remarks-and-question-and-answer-session-reporters-0, retrieved 2020-10-22

    bag fellow: head to the juice bar for fresh-squoze juice! morning, noon, or night!

    2014, Yacht Club Games, Shovel Knight, level/area: Village

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Cite this entry
APA

squoze. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/squoze

MLA

“squoze.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/squoze. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “squoze,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/squoze.

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