Definition of "mess"
- noun
Mass; church service.
A quantity of food set on a table at one time; provision of food for a person or party for one meal; also, the food given to a beast at one time.
A number of persons who eat together, and for whom food is prepared in common; especially, persons in the military or naval service who eat at the same table.
A set of four (from the old practice of dividing companies into sets of four at dinner).
The milk given by a cow at one milking.
A disagreeable mixture or confusion of things; hence, a situation resulting from blundering or from misunderstanding; a disorder.
A large quantity or number.
Excrement.
- verb
To take meals with a mess.
To belong to a mess.
To eat (with others).
To supply with a mess.
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