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Meaning:

acronym:

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Noun:

  • A mixture of meal or bran and water fed to animals.
  • In 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.
  • Mashed potatoes.
  • obsolete a dandy, a masher
  • obsolete A mesh
  • obsolete: A mess; trouble — Francis Beaumont & John Fletcher
  • obsolete an infatuation, a crush, a fancy
  • either sex
  • 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.

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Verb:

  • transitive|southern US|informal| to press.
  • to flirt, to make eyes, to make romantic advances
  • transitive To convert into a mash; to reduce to a soft pulpy state by beating or pressure; to bruise; to crush; as, to mash apples in a mill, or potatoes with a pestle. Specifically (Brewing), to convert, as malt, or malt and meal, into the mash which makes wort.
  • transitive To press down hard (on).

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