Read the passage and answer. The shopkeeper counted the change twice and frowned. The customer, a young boy in a torn shirt, had given him a thousand-rupee note for a loaf of bread – and then hurried away before taking the change. That evening the shopkeeper waited at the door, the folded notes in his pocket. When the boy finally walked past, the old man called him over and pressed the money into his hand. "Your mother must have saved for weeks for this," he said quietly. The boy said nothing, but the look in his eyes stayed with the shopkeeper for the rest of his life. The word "pressed" in the passage means:

1. ironed
2. gave firmly
3. squeezed hard
4. pushed away

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