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A squeezer is a small kitchen tool for pressing juice out of fruit, most often lemons, limes, or oranges. The usual kinds are the metal one shaped like two hinged halves — you put a cut half of lemon inside and press the handles together — and the plain dish with a cone in the middle that you twist the fruit onto. People usually say what fruit it is for: a lemon squeezer, a lime squeezer, an orange squeezer. Said alone, squeezer sounds a little bare and most speakers would add the fruit. The word is not limited to fruit, though: -er just means the thing that squeezes, so you also meet a garlic squeezer (though garlic press is much more common) and, in older or joking use, a squeezer for anything that presses. If the machine has a motor, people normally say juicer instead — juicer covers electric machines and blender-type ones, while squeezer suggests something small and worked by hand.
榨汁器、擠汁器（檸檬用的叫「檸檬榨汁器」）；電動的台灣一般說「榨汁機」
組成squeeze (to press something hard from the sides so what is inside comes out) + -er, the ending that names the doer or the tool. So: the thing that squeezes. The -er ending here is very old, coming down through Old English from Latin -arius.
同家族的字
- squeezethe base verb — a squeezer squeezes
- squeezeboxalso built on squeeze — the bellows are squeezed
- openersame -er ending naming a tool: the thing that opens
- cookersame -er ending naming a thing that cooks
原始詞典資料5 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
squeezernoun
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Someone or something that squeezes.
- I made juice with a lemon squeezer.
- Although it is possible to argue that the ogler's, pincher's, or squeezer's sexual misconduct is coercive, it is difficult.
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A piece of foundry apparatus for shaping a ball of puddled iron.
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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).
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Someone or something that coerces; one who puts the squeeze on someone.
- 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.
- 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.
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slangA 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.
- Twenty-five one-armed squeezers sounds like a lot of unnecessary strain on the heart.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。