mash

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. (countable, uncountable)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. (UK, countable, uncountable)Mashed potatoes.
4. (countable, uncountable)A mixture of meal or bran and water fed to animals.
5. (countable, obsolete, uncountable)A mess; trouble.

   “For your vows and oaths, Or I doubt mainly, I shall be i' the mash " too”

6. (obsolete)A mesh.
7. (obsolete)An infatuation, a crush, a fancy.
8. (obsolete)A dandy, a masher.
9. (obsolete)The object of one’s affections (regardless of sex).
10. (Multicultural-London-English, countable, slang)A gun.

    “This mash works but I don't know about yours […] Better hope your mash don't jam, bare ping ping like a BB […] I see a boy run with his mash, I see a boy run with his jooka […] Don't talk about mashes, we've lost about ten I know about cookers”

    “Rise that heater, tap that mash They don't come outside their flats Decamp, decamp, aim this toolie at your hat They piss us off on Snap, so we rise up and load them straps”

    “Close man’s eyes, make them look Chinese Or do it like tits when the mash gets squeezed When we squeeze that mash, tell your boy don’t dash Me I just want cash But if they want war let’s leave it at dat”

    “If the mash empty, tell boy reload it”

    “Shoot my gun like Tommy Shеlby If I get close ching him out of his LVs Slimey as fuck, man took that mash Probably takе that grub that he sell me (Take that)”

11. (alt-of, alternative)Alternative form of maash (“mung bean”).
12. (abbreviation, acronym, alt-of)Acronym of Mobile Army Surgical Hospital.
13. (Canada, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism)Initialism of municipal, academic, schools and hospitals

    “Don, who is now a member of the Kings Counsel, has been practicing law for over four decades. Focused on municipal law in the MASH sector, his law firm, Lidstone and Company – Barristers and Solicitors has evolved to include 26 lawyers, two articling students and 12 support staff.”

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

   “He took the kettle off the fire and mashed the tea.”

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

   “to mash on a bicycle pedal”

5. (Southern-US, informal, transitive)To press.
6. (archaic, intransitive)To act violently.
7. (informal, transitive)To press (a button) rapidly and repeatedly.
8. To flirt, to make eyes, to make romantic advances.

   ““What's the yarn about your mashing a Miss Haverley up there? Not serious, I hope?””

name

1. A surname.