squeeze out meaning and definition

SQUEEZE OUT verb

Definition of squeeze out (verb)

1. force out
   • "Some employees were squeezed out by the recent budget cuts"
2. make by laborious and precarious means
   • "He eked out a living as a painter"
   • synonyms: eke out
3. extract (liquid) by squeezing or pressing
   • "wring out the washcloth"
   • synonyms: wring out
4. obtain with difficulty
   • "He eked out some information from the archives"
   • synonyms: eke out
5. form or shape by forcing through an opening
   • "extrude steel"
   • synonyms: extrude
6. cause to come out in a squirt
   • "the boy squirted water at his little sister"
   • synonyms: eject, force out, squirt