squeeze-comb. form

1953 Wall St. Jrnl. 16 Sept. 23/4 The principal addition to the product line will be polyethyline, best known in its form of ‘squeeze bottles’ and transparent packaging material.

1964 V. E. Yarsley et al. Cellulosic Plastics i. 5 To-day ‘squeeze-bottles’ in polythene are used in increasing quantities all over the world.

1976 ‘E. McBain’ Guns (1977) vii. 177 The doctor..takes a squeeze-bottle..and then wets a piece of gauze.

1909 J. R. Ware Passing Eng. Victorian Era 232/1 Squeeze-box,..the ship harmonium—used in the hasty Sunday service. From the action of the feet.

1936 Amer. Speech 11 280/1 Squeeze-box, an accordion.

1938 W. H. Auden & C. Isherwood On Frontier iii. i. 99 Get yer squeeze-box. [First Soldier begins to play the accordion.]

1942 E. Paul Narrow Street x. 77 I told my Marseilles accordion teacher that the experience had disabled me from practising the squeeze-box for a week.

1963 Times 26 Jan. 11/1 They imagine everyone spends their time dancing to squeezebox music and living on Knackwurst and Apfelstrudel.

1973 C. Bonington Next Horizon vii. 105 He was already ensconced in the bar at the Clachaig, his squeeze box out, a dram of whisky at his side and a cigarette in his mouth.

1938 Oil Weekly 28 Feb. 36/1 Squeeze cementing means that cement slurry is forced, or ‘squeezed’, by pressure into or against a permeable formation or through perforations in casing and liners for the purpose of shutting off water or for reducing gas/oil ratios.

1974 D. K. Smith in P. L. Moore et al. Drilling Practices Man. xvi. 400 Squeeze cementing is necessary for many reasons, but probably the most important use is to segregate hydrocarbon producing zones from those formations producing other fluids.

1785 F. Grose Classical Dict. Vulgar Tongue Squeeze crab, a sour looking shrivelled diminutive fellow.

1879 G. F. Jackson Shropshire Word-bk. Squeeze-crab, a person of shrunk and withered appearance.

1622 J. Mabbe tr. M. Alemán Rogue ii. 330 Hee was a notable squeeze-grape, a huge quaffer.

1957 Amer. Cinematographer Mar. 149/1 Focal distortion is practically eliminated by a technique that adds a squeeze (anamorphic) lens to the system that produces partial scene compression in the camera, with the remainder being effected in the printing process.

1977 J. Hedgecoe Photographer's Handbk. 31 Squeeze lens. This is an ‘anamorphic’ supplementary lens system continuing cylindrical lens elements. When mounted on a normal lens it squeezes the image by reducing either its vertical or its horizontal size without affecting the other dimension.

1954 Toys & Novelties Mar. 421 (advt.) A complete new line of unique squeeze toys by Alan Jay.

1976 National Observer (U.S.) 25 Dec. 6/4 He would also like to see a uniform law covering sound levels of toys... ‘I have been responsible for manufacturing more than 35 million squeeze toys in my career, and I have never run into anything like this,’ Young says.

1872 S. Hale Let. 1 Oct. (1919) iv. 86 We went to Rowney's,—delicious!—and I bought two squeeze tubes..; there were watercolours there.

1962 J. Glenn in J. Glenn et al. Into Orbit 201 I pulled a squeeze-tube of apple sauce out of its receptacle and parked it in the air in front of me.

1785 F. Grose Classical Dict. Vulgar Tongue Squeeze wax, a good-natured foolish fellow, ready to become security for another, under hand and seal.