ˈsquelcher colloq.
[f. squelch v.]
One who, or that which, squelches; a squelching or crushing blow, leading article, etc.
| 1854 ‘C. Bede’ Verdant Green ii. iv, There's a squelcher in the bread-basket, that'll stop your dancing! 1876 Besant & Rice Gold. Butterfly xviii, I went back to the editor's room. He was going on again with his usual occupation of manufacturing squelchers. 1893 Microcosm (N.Y.) X. 192 He then asserts..that he has demolished our law by an overwhelming ‘squelcher’. |