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bangers and mash

bangers and mash noun: a meal of sausages and mashed potato, usually with onions and gravy added.

bangers and mash: a meal of sausages and mashed potato, usually with onions and gravy added
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Noun

bangers and mash (uncountable)

  1. (New Zealand, UK, informal) A meal of sausages and mashed potato, usually with onions and gravy added.
  2. (UK, slang) Human faeces combined with toilet paper.
    • Unfortunately, as you walk around these trails you might be unfortunate to see the reason in the form of helpings of bangers and mash at the side of the path (the mash of course being toilet paper).2011, Paul Carpenter, The Moray Way and the Ben Macdui Trail, page 21

Synonyms of bangers and mash

Questions about bangers and mash

What does bangers and mash mean?
Bangers and mash means a meal of sausages and mashed potato, usually with onions and gravy added.
What part of speech is bangers and mash?
Bangers and mash is a noun.

Words near bangers and mash in the dictionary

  1. banger race
  2. banger races
  3. banger racing
  4. Bangerang
  5. bangers
  6. bangers and mash
  7. Bangert
  8. Bangerter
  9. Bangerters
  10. Bangerts
  11. Banges

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