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mash

 (măsh)
n.
1. A mixture of malt or other ingredients with water, heated to convert starches into fermentable sugars for use in brewing or distilling.
2. A mixture of ground grain and nutrients fed to livestock and fowl.
3. A soft pulpy mixture or mass.
4. Chiefly British Mashed potatoes.
5. A crushing or grinding.
6. Slang An infatuation or act of flirtation.
tr.v. mashed, mash·ing, mash·es
1. To convert (malt or grain) into mash.
2. To convert into a soft pulpy mass by pounding or crushing: mash potatoes. See Synonyms at crush.
3. Chiefly Southern & South Midland US To apply pressure to; press.
4. Slang To flirt with or make sexual advances to.
Phrasal Verb:
mash up
To combine (two or more audio or video recordings) to produce a composite recording.

[Middle English mash- (as in mashfat, mash tub), from Old English *māsc, *mǣsc, māx- (in māxwyrt, wort); see meik- in Indo-European roots. V., sense 4, perhaps from Romani mash, to entice.]

MASH

 (măsh)
abbr.
Mobile Army Surgical Hospital
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mashed

(mæʃt)
adj
slang intoxicated; drunk
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Translations

mashed

[mæʃt] ADJ mashed potatoespuré m de patatas, puré m de papas (LAm)
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mashed

adj mashed potatoesKartoffelbrei mor -püree nt
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References in classic literature ?
They tired Jim and Eureka out, and although the field of battle was thickly covered with mashed and disabled Mangaboos, our animal friends had to give up at last and allow themselves to be driven to the mountain.
With drooping heads and tremulous tails, they mashed their way through the thick mud, floundering and stumbling between whiles, as if they were falling to pieces at the larger joints.
Mash his face!" That guy with the specs was I, and I got my face mashed, too, though I had the presence of mind to take off my glasses at the first.
So he went back to the Circumlocution Office, and once more sent up his card to Barnacle junior by a messenger who took it very ill indeed that he should come back again, and who was eating mashed potatoes and gravy behind a partition by the hall fire.
'Jenkinson,' to the mashed potatoes messenger, 'Mr Wobbler!'
She lugged it home, cut it up, and boiled it in the big pot, mashed some of it salt and butter, for dinner.
His fourth day at his work Jurgis saw a man stumble while running in front of a car, and have his foot mashed off, and before he had been there three weeks he was witness of a yet more dreadful accident.
The old abbot could not speak a word, for tears and the chokings in his throat; without utterance of any sort, he folded me in his arms and mashed me.
A pile of mashed potato with lashings of butter suffices as glue to stick your shattered self back together.
But, like planting your spring bulbs too soon and then being caught out by an overnight frost, I feel there is no rush to ditch the comfort foods - in particular mashed potatoes.
Mr M's pie was served on a bed of mashed potato, topped with a giant Yorkshire pudding which was stuffed full of carrot and swede mash, baby roast potatoes, a pig in a blanket and a stick of crackling.
Hence, while it is important to know what temperature to bake your Thanksgiving turkey at to get that perfect glaze on the top, it is equally important to remember a few tips and tricks to wow your guests with a melt-in-the-mouth side of mashed potatoes.