squasher

From squash + -er.

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.

• quashers

From squashen +‎ -er.

• IPA^(key): /ˈskʋɑ.ʃər/

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• Hyphenation: squa‧sher
• Rhymes: -ɑʃər

squasher m (plural squashers, diminutive squashertje n)

1. squash player

   Synonym: squashspeler

squasher

1. indefinite plural of squash