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The term squeeze is still used in poker today to describe slowly looking at a hole card. From this there is a variety of other metaphorical usages which have arose.
My favorite definition in the OED (and there are several!) is this one: "Usu. pl. A playing-card which has its value indicated in one or two corners, so that a player may ascertain his hand while holding the cards closely arranged." Last usage given is 1930--presumably because almost all playing cards today are squeezers?
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