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potato-masher

potato-masher is the alternative form of potato masher.

Meaning of potato masher

Noun

potato masher (plural potato mashers)

  1. A utensil used to mash potatoes.
    Synonyms:
    masher
  2. (slang) A type of stick hand grenade resembling such a utensil.
    • ‘A hand-grenade. One of those potato-mashers. It just blew the whole side of my foot off.’1929 May–October, Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms, 1st British edition, London: Jonathan Cape […], published 1929, →OCLC, book II, page 131

Forms of potato-masher

pluralpotato-mashers

Questions about potato-masher

What is potato-masher the alternative form of?
Potato-masher is the alternative form of potato masher.

Words near potato-masher in the dictionary

  1. potato-bogle
  2. potato-bogles
  3. potato-ey
  4. potato-head
  5. potato-heads
  6. potato-masher
  7. potato-mashers
  8. potato-phile
  9. potato-philes
  10. potato-quality
  11. potato-y

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