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squeezer en · NOUN

Pronunciation

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Etymology

Etymology tree English squeeze Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzios Latin -āriusnom. Latin -āriusbor. Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz Proto-West Germanic *-ārī Old English -ere Middle English -ere English -er English squeezer From squeeze + -er.

Meanings

1. Someone or something that squeezes.
   • Although it is possible to argue that the ogler's, pincher's, or squeezer's sexual misconduct is coercive, it is difficult. 1984, Rosemarie Tong, Women, Sex, and the Law, page 70:
   • I made juice with a lemon squeezer.
2. A piece of foundry apparatus for shaping a ball of puddled iron.
3. A playing card that has its value shown in a corner such that a closely arranged hand may be studied (originally designed for poker but now standard).
4. Someone or something that coerces; one who puts the squeeze on someone.
   • A narrative often hear during short squeezes is that short sellers represent the Wall Street Establishment, while the squeezers represent feisty entrepreneurs and Main Street ordinary folks. 2023, Kenneth Winston, Quantitative Risk and Portfolio Management: Theory and Practice, page 65:
   • Not all squeeze tactics rely on overt coercion, of course, as a squeezer's scheme sometimes can be achieved by lulling his squeezee into a false sense of security. 1985, Forest Hodge O'Neal, Robert B. Thompson, O'Neal's Oppression of Minority Shareholders, page 85:
   • Upstairs the stakes are higher. [The vagina] can be used as a come-on for financial, marital, or other entrapments, as a squeezer by women who want to swindle a man out of his semen for dishonest or desperate impregnation, and as an impotent constrictor by those who want to deprive a man of his virile organ by violence, instead of caressing it into humility as an honest trophy-thief would do. 1970, Eric Berne, Sex in Human Loving:
5. (Canada, US, slang) A hand job, an instance of male masturbation, or manual sex performed on a man.
   • You were playing Buckhunter at the bar last night and your game was so tight a gal offered to give you a squeezer in the parking lot. 2014, Letterkenny Problems:
   • Twenty-five one-armed squeezers sounds like a lot of unnecessary strain on the heart. 2019, Letterkenny (TV series):

Forms

Deriveds

alligator squeezer · mop squeezer · duck-squeezer · lemon squeezer · crocodile squeezer