squasher

English

Etymology

From squash +‎ -er.

Noun

squasher (plural squashers)

1. One who, or that which, squashes.
   • 1996, T William Boxx, Gary M Quinlivan, Culture in crisis and the renewal of civil life:

     It is in this sense that television, the great reducer, the great squasher of high hearts and innocence, is a depressing cultural voice.

   • 2009, Sigrid Schmalzer, The People's Peking Man, page 81:

     Whatever their feelings about the state's heavy-handed blows on idealist scientific writings, they appear to have remained committed to their roles as squashers of superstition.

Derived terms

• beetle-squasher

Anagrams

• quashers

Swedish

Noun

squasher

1. indefinite plural of squash