Related Clues:

• Squash
• Say somethin'?
• Have 'nothin'' to say, e.g.
• Mess hall meal
• Skip over in pronunciation
• Sound of stepping in mud
• Eliminate a syllable, perhaps
• Keep under control
• Skip a syllable, e.g.
• Archie's exhortation to Edith
• Hold down
• Archie Bunker's command
• Skip a phoneme
• Compress
• Extinguish, as coals