▸ noun: (uncountable) A mass of mixed ingredients reduced to a soft pulpy state by beating or pressure; a mass of anything in a soft pulpy state. ▸ noun: (brewing) Ground or bruised malt, or meal of rye, wheat, corn, or other grain (or a mixture of malt and meal) steeped and stirred in hot water for making the wort. ▸ noun: (chiefly UK) Mashed potatoes. ▸ noun: A mixture of meal or bran and water fed to animals. ▸ noun: (obsolete) A mess; trouble. ▸ verb: (transitive) To convert into a mash; to reduce to a soft pulpy state by beating or pressure ▸ verb: (transitive) In brewing, to convert (for example malt, or malt and meal) into the mash which makes wort. ▸ verb: (ambitransitive) To press down hard (on). ▸ verb: (transitive, Southern US, informal) To press. ▸ verb: (transitive, UK, chiefly Northern England) To prepare a cup of tea in a teapot; to brew (tea). ▸ verb: (intransitive, archaic) To act violently. ▸ verb: (transitive, informal, gaming) To press (a button) rapidly and repeatedly. ▸ noun: (obsolete) A mesh. ▸ verb: To flirt, to make eyes, to make romantic advances. ▸ noun: (obsolete) An infatuation, a crush, a fancy. ▸ noun: (obsolete) A dandy, a masher. ▸ noun: (obsolete) The object of one’s affections (regardless of sex). ▸ noun: (countable, MLE, slang) A gun. ▸ noun: A surname. ▸ noun: Alternative form of maash (“mung bean”) [Synonym of mung bean] ▸ noun: Acronym of Mobile Army Surgical Hospital. [A type of dedicated field hospital unit designed to be quickly set up as close to a combat zone as possible to facilitate the immediate treatment of wounded personnel.]
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