squeezer

English

Etymology

squeeze +‎ -er

Noun

squeezer (plural squeezers)

1. Someone or something that squeezes.

   I made juice with a lemon squeezer.

   • 1984, Rosemarie Tong, Women, Sex, and the Law, page 70:

     Although it is possible to argue that the ogler's, pincher's, or squeezer's sexual misconduct is coercive, it is difficult.

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.
   • 1970, Eric Berne, Sex in Human Loving:

     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.

   • 1985, Forest Hodge O'Neal, Robert B. Thompson, O'Neal's Oppression of Minority Shareholders, page 85:

     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.

   • 2023, Kenneth Winston, Quantitative Risk and Portfolio Management: Theory and Practice, page 65:

     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 ordianry folks.

5. (slang, US, Canada) A hand job, an instance of male masturbation, or manual sex performed on a man.
   • 2014, Letterkenny Problems:

     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.

   • 2019, Letterkenny (TV series):

     Twenty-five one-armed squeezers sounds like a lot of unnecessary strain on the heart.

Derived terms

• lemon squeezer
• mop squeezer