Definition of "mash" in English

noun

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. (brewing) 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. (chiefly UK) Mashed potatoes.

4. A mixture of meal or bran and water fed to animals.

5. (obsolete) A mess; trouble.

verb

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.

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. (transitive, UK, chiefly Northern England, Lancashire, Yorkshire) To prepare a cup of tea in a teapot; to brew (tea).

4. (ambitransitive) To press down hard (on).

   • to mash on a bicycle pedal

5. (transitive, Southern US, informal) To press.

6. (intransitive, archaic) To act violently.

7. (transitive, informal, gaming) To press (a button) rapidly and repeatedly.

noun

1. (obsolete) A mesh.

verb

1. To flirt, to make eyes, to make romantic advances.

noun

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

1. (countable, MLE, slang) A gun.

noun

1. Alternative form of maash (“mung bean”).