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potato mashers

potato mashers is the plural 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

Questions about potato mashers

What is potato mashers the plural of?
Potato mashers is the plural of potato masher.

Words near potato mashers in the dictionary

  1. Potato Germans
  2. potato head
  3. potato heads
  4. potato in its jacket
  5. potato masher
  6. potato mashers
  7. potato moth
  8. potato moths
  9. potato nigger
  10. potato niggers
  11. potato oil

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