Usually means: Disorderly state of things, confusion.
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General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. mess: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. mess: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. mess: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. mess: Collins English Dictionary
  5. mess: Vocabulary.com
  6. Mess, mes's, mess: Wordnik
  7. mess: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. mess: Wiktionary
  9. mess: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. mess: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. mess: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Mess, mess: Dictionary.com
  13. mess: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. mess: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. MESS (festival), MESS, Mess (Fila Brazillia album), Mess (Liars album), Mess (band), Mess (river), Mess, The Mess: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Mess: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. mess: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. mess: Rhymezone
  19. mess, mess (de): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. mess: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. mess: Free Dictionary
  22. mess: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. Mess: The Word Detective
  24. mess: Dictionary/thesaurus
  25. Mess: World Wide Words
  26. mess: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. MESS (emulator), mess: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. mess: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. MESS (emulator), MESS: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. MESS: Acronym Finder
  2. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  3. mess: Idioms

Religion (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Mess: Easton Bible
  2. MESS: Glossary of Biblical English of the Authorised Version of the HOLY BIBLE

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. mess, mess, mess, mess: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. American-Australian Slang Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. M.E.S.S, mess, the mess: Urban Dictionary

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)
  2. Mess, Mess: Latitude Mexico

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  A disagreeable mixture or confusion of things; hence, a situation resulting from blundering or from misunderstanding.
noun:  (colloquial) A large quantity or number.
noun:  (euphemistic) Excrement.
noun:  (figuratively) A person in a state of (especially emotional) turmoil or disarray; an emotional wreck.
verb:  (transitive, often used with "up") To make untidy or dirty.
verb:  To make soiled by defecating.
verb:  To make soiled by ejaculating.
verb:  (transitive, often used with "up") To throw into disorder or to ruin.
verb:  (intransitive) To interfere.
noun:  (obsolete) Mass; a church service.
noun:  (archaic) A quantity of food set on a table at one time; provision of food for a person or party for one meal; also, the food given to an animal at one time.
noun:  (collective) A number of persons who eat together, and for whom food is prepared in common, especially military personnel who eat at the same table.
noun:  A building or room in which mess is eaten.
noun:  A set of four (from the old practice of dividing companies into sets of four at dinner).
noun:  (US) The milk given by a cow at one milking.
noun:  (collective) A group of iguanas.
noun:  (cooking) A dessert of fruit and cream, similar to a fool.
verb:  (intransitive) To take meals with a mess.
verb:  (intransitive) To belong to a mess.
verb:  (intransitive) To eat (with others).
verb:  (transitive) To supply with a mess.
noun:  A surname from German.

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