A Quick and Simple Dictionary

mash

1. (acronym) .  Mobile Army Surgical Hospital.
2. Noun.  (obsolete) A mesh.
3. Noun.  (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.
4. Noun.  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.
5. Noun.  Mashed potatoes..
6. Noun.  A mixture of meal or bran and water fed to animals.
7. Noun.  (obsolete) : A mess; trouble — Francis Beaumont & John Fletcher.
8. Verb.  (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.
9. Verb.  (transitive) To press down hard (on).
10. Verb.  (transitive, southern US) to press.
11. Verb.  (transitive, UK) To prepare a cup of tea (in a teapot), alternative to brew.
12. Verb.  to flirt, to make eyes, to make romantic advances.
13. Noun.  (obsolete) an infatuation, a crush, a fancy.
14. Noun.  (obsolete) a dandy, a masher.
15. Noun.  (obsolete) the object of one’s affections (qualifier, either sex) .