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squozen

  1. (nonstandard, dialectal or humorous) past participle of squeeze
    If something you freeze becomes frozen, does that mean something you squeeze becomes squozen?
    • 2002, Richard S. Prather, Shell Scott's Seven Slaughters[1], →ISBN, page 72:
      Frank the Mouse looked at his nurse. "What's all this? Where's Doc Layne? I thought I was all through bein' bandaged and squozen.
    • 2004, Wil McCarthy, Lost in Transmission (Sci-Fi), Random House, →ISBN:
      Feeling the crush of gravity again, the insistent tug on limbs and jowls and eyelashes. He flexes an arm experimentally. "It feels... different." / "What does?" Radmer asks. "The gradient?" Lune, like Varna, was squozen to the point of Earthlike gravity and no farther.
    • 2007 July 29, “Baba Ghanouj, Hummus, and Tzatziki - Ripping the "Whole" out of Wholesome”, in The Delicious Life[2], retrieved 2012-09-18:
      In a bowl, combine the drained yogurt, squozen cucumber, juice from 1 lemon

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