colloq. [f. SQUELCH v.] One who, or that which, squelches; a squelching or crushing blow, leading article, etc.
1853. ‘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.’
