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SQUASH RACKETS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does squash rackets mean? 

SQUASH RACKETS (noun)
  The noun SQUASH RACKETS has 1 sense:

1. a game played in an enclosed court by two or four players who strike the ball with long-handled racketsplay

  Familiarity information: SQUASH RACKETS used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


SQUASH RACKETS (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A game played in an enclosed court by two or four players who strike the ball with long-handled rackets

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

squash; squash rackets; squash racquets

Hypernyms ("squash rackets" is a kind of...):

court game (an athletic game played on a court)

Domain member category:

cut; undercut ((sports) a stroke that puts reverse spin on the ball)

drive ((sports) a hard straight return (as in tennis or squash))

forehand; forehand shot; forehand stroke ((sports) a return made with the palm of the hand facing the direction of the stroke (as in tennis or badminton or squash))

forehand drive ((sports) hard straight return made on the forehand side (as in tennis or badminton or squash))

serve; service ((sports) a stroke that puts the ball in play)

fault ((sports) a serve that is illegal (e.g., that lands outside the prescribed area))

exchange; rally ((sports) an unbroken sequence of several successive strokes)


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