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MASH  (msh)
abbr.
Mobile Army Surgical Hospital

mash  (msh)
n.
1. A fermentable starchy mixture from which alcohol or spirits can be distilled.
2. A mixture of ground grain and nutrients fed to livestock and fowl.
3. A soft pulpy mixture or mass.
4. Chiefly British Mashed potatoes.
5. A crushing or grinding.
6. Slang An infatuation or act of flirtation.
tr.v. mashed, mash·ing, mash·es
1. To convert (malt or grain) into mash.
2. To convert into a soft pulpy mixture: mash potatoes.
3. To crush or grind. See Synonyms at crush.
4. Chiefly Southern & South Midland U.S. To apply pressure to; press.
5. Slang To flirt with or make sexual advances to.

[Middle English mash- (as in mashfat, mash tub), from Old English *msc, *msc, mx- (in mxwyrt, wort); see meik- in Indo-European roots. V., sense 5, perhaps from Romany mash, to entice.]

mashed [mæʃt]
adj
Slang intoxicated; drunk
Translations
mashed [mæʃt] ADJ mashed potatoespuré m de patatas, puré m de papas(LAm)
mashed
adj mashed potatoesKartoffelbrei mor -püree nt


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With drooping heads and tremulous tails, they mashed their way through the thick mud, floundering and stumbling between whiles, as if they were falling to pieces at the larger joints.
They tired Jim and Eureka out, and although the field of battle was thickly covered with mashed and disabled Mangaboos, our animal friends had to give up at last and allow themselves to be driven to the mountain.
She lugged it home, cut it up, and boiled it in the big pot, mashed some of it salt and butter, for dinner.
 
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