mash

verb8

1. •
   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. •
   To press down hard (on).
3. •
   (Southern-US, informal) To press.
4. •
   (informal) To press (a button) rapidly and repeatedly.
5. •
   In brewing, to convert (for example malt, or malt and meal) into the mash which makes wort, by mixing it with hot water.
6. •
   (UK, Northern-England) To prepare a cup of tea in a teapot; to brew (tea).

   • He took the kettle off the fire and mashed the tea. — 1913
7. •
   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?” — 1889
8. •
   (no longer used) To act violently.

noun10

1. •
   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. •
   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) Mashed potatoes.
4. •
   A mixture of meal or bran and water fed to animals.
5. •
   (slang) A gun.

   • 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 — 2020
6. •
   (no longer used) A mess; trouble.

   • For your vows and oaths, Or I doubt mainly, I shall be i' the mash " too — 1609
7. •
   (no longer used) An infatuation, a crush, a fancy.
8. •
   (no longer used) A dandy, a masher.
9. •
   (no longer used) The object of one’s affections (regardless of sex).
10. •
    (no longer used) A mesh.

noun2

1. •
   Acronym of Mobile Army Surgical Hospital.
2. •
   (Canada) Initialism of municipal, academic, schools and hospitals