Short squeeze is a specific Trading coordinate in the Bitcoin knowledge graph. In practical terms, it identifies the subject described here: Rapid buying by short sellers closing positions as price rises and losses expand. This definition is narrower than promotional usage and should be read together with the implementation, date and evidence attached to the entry.
Short squeeze is best understood as part of a system rather than as an isolated definition. Its related coordinates show the mechanisms, incentives and historical records that give the term practical meaning.
Short squeeze describes how participants value, trade or obtain exposure to bitcoin. Market behavior can affect adoption and mining economics, but it does not rewrite consensus rules. Price evidence and protocol evidence answer different questions.
Understanding Short squeeze helps distinguish a verifiable Bitcoin mechanism or historical record from slogans, products and market narratives.
Primary or authoritative records make these details checkable: a short squeeze occurs when rising prices and constrained liquidity force or induce short positions to buy back, adding demand; evidence can include borrow rates, liquidations, open interest and order-book conditions. They should be verified before using the coordinate in analysis.
The practical limit is: a price rally or liquidation total alone does not prove a squeeze, identify direction of all traders or guarantee continuation; venue leverage data, hedges and double counting complicate inference. A definition, office, chart pattern or published claim is not by itself a prediction or Bitcoin consensus rule.
For the clearest picture, read this entry together with Liquidation cascade, Open interest, Perpetual funding rate, Forced liquidation, Bitcoin. The reverse links also lead from Liquidation cascade, Long squeeze.