If you squeeze something, you press it firmly, usually with your hands.

If you squeeze a liquid or a soft substance out of an object, you get the liquid or substance out by pressing the object.

If you squeeze your eyes shut or if your eyes squeeze shut, you close them tightly, usually because you are frightened or to protect your eyes from something such as strong sunlight.

If you squeeze a person or thing somewhere or if they squeeze there, they manage to get through or into a small space.

If you say that getting a number of people into a small space is a squeeze, you mean that it is only just possible for them all to get into it.

If you squeeze something out of someone, you persuade them to give it to you, although they may be unwilling to do this.

If a government squeezes the economy, they put strict controls on people's ability to borrow money or on their own departments' freedom to spend money, in order to control the country's rate of inflation.

Someone's squeeze is their boyfriend or girlfriend.