Definition of "mash"
- noun
A mesh.
A mass of mixed ingredients reduced to a soft pulpy state by beating or pressure; a mass of anything in a soft pulpy state.
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.
A mixture of meal or bran and water fed to animals.
An infatuation, a crush, a fancy.
A dandy, a masher.
The object of one's affections (either sex).
- verb
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.
To press down hard (on).
To press.
To prepare a cup of tea (in a teapot), alternative to brew.
To flirt, to make eyes, to make romantic advances.
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