mash

Noun (1)

mash (countable and uncountable, plural mashes)

1. (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.
2. 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.
3. (UK) Mashed potatoes.
4. A mixture of meal or bran and water fed to animals.
5. (obsolete) A mess; trouble.
   • For your vows and oaths, Or I doubt mainly, I shall be i' the mash " too1609–1612, Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher, “The Captaine”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1647, →OCLC, (please specify the...

Verb (1)

mash (third-person singular simple present mashes, present participle mashing, simple past and past participle mashed)

1. (transitive) To convert into a mash; to reduce to a soft pulpy state by beating or pressure
   • We had fun mashing apples in a mill.
   • The potatoes need to be mashed.

   Synonyms:

   pomate

2. (transitive) In brewing, to convert (for example malt, or malt and meal) into the mash which makes wort, by mixing it with hot water.
3. (Northern England, UK, Yorkshire, transitive, Lancashire) To prepare a cup of tea in a teapot; to brew (tea).
   • He took the kettle off the fire and mashed the tea.1913, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, “Chapter 10”, in Sons and Lovers, London: Duckworth & Co. […], →OCLC
4. (ambitransitive) To press down hard (on).
   • to mash on a bicycle pedal
5. (Southern US, informal, transitive) To press.
6. (archaic, intransitive) To act violently.
7. (informal, transitive) To press (a button) rapidly and repeatedly.

Noun (2)

mash (plural mashes)

1. (obsolete) A mesh.

Verb (2)

mash (third-person singular simple present mashes, present participle mashing, simple past and past participle mashed)

1. To flirt, to make eyes, to make romantic advances.
   • “What's the yarn about your mashing a Miss Haverley up there? Not serious, I hope?”1889, Rudyard Kipling, “Only A Subaltern”, in Under the Deodars, Boston: The Greenock Press, published 1899, page 143

Noun (3)

mash (plural mashes)

1. (obsolete) An infatuation, a crush, a fancy.
2. (obsolete) A dandy, a masher.
3. (obsolete) The object of one’s affections (regardless of sex).

Noun (4)

IPA[maʃ]

mash (plural mashes)

1. (Multicultural-London-English, countable, slang) A gun.
   • This mash works but I don't know about yours […] Better hope your mash don't jam, bare ping ping like a BB […] I see a boy run with his mash, I see a boy run with his jooka […] Don't talk about mashes, we've lost about ten I know about cookers2016, “Skeng Man”, Various performers of 67 (lyrics)
   • Rise that heater, tap that mash
     They don't come outside their flats
     Decamp, decamp, aim this toolie at your hat
     They piss us off on Snap, so we rise up and load them straps2020 July 2, “Stop Check”, Td of TPL (lyrics)

   Synonyms:

   firearm, gat, gun, iron, piece

Noun (5) capitalized: MASH

MASH

1. (abbreviation, acronym) Acronym of Mobile Army Surgical Hospital.
2. (Canada, abbreviation, initialism, public sector) Initialism of municipal, academic, schools and hospitals
   • Don, who is now a member of the Kings Counsel, has been practicing law for over four decades. Focused on municipal law in the MASH sector, his law firm, Lidstone and Company – Barristers and Solicitors has evolved to include 26 lawyers, two articling students and 12 support staff.2024 October 7, “Homecoming 2024 caps off with memorable reunion”, in University of Winnipeg News, archived from the original on 16 Jun 2025

Proper noun capitalized: Mash

Mash (plural Mashes)

1. A surname.