Definition of "mash"

mash¹

/mæʃ/

noun
countable and uncountable, plural mashes
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. (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.
3. (mostly UK) Mashed potatoes.
4. A mixture of meal or bran and water fed to animals.
5. (obsolete) A mess; trouble.
  Quotations
  For your vows and oaths, Or I doubt mainly, I shall be i' the mash " too
  1609–1612, Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher, “The Captaine”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1647, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals)

mash²

/mæʃ/

verb
third-person singular simple present mashes, present participle mashing, simple past and past participle mashed
1. (transitive) To convert into a mash; to reduce to a soft pulpy state by beating or pressure
2. (transitive) In brewing, to convert (for example malt, or malt and meal) into the mash which makes wort.
3. (transitive, intransitive) To press down hard (on).
4. (transitive, Southern US, informal) To press.
5. (transitive, UK, chiefly Northern England) To prepare a cup of tea in a teapot; to brew (tea).
  Quotations
  He took the kettle off the fire and mashed the tea.
  1913, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, “Chapter 10”, in Sons and Lovers, London: Duckworth & Co. […]
6. (intransitive, archaic) To act violently.
7. (transitive, informal, gaming) To press (a button) rapidly and repeatedly.

mash³

/mæʃ/

noun
plural mashes
1. (obsolete) A mesh.

mash⁴

/mæʃ/

verb
third-person singular simple present mashes, present participle mashing, simple past and past participle mashed
1. To flirt, to make eyes, to make romantic advances.
noun
plural mashes
1. (obsolete) An infatuation, a crush, a fancy.
2. (obsolete) A dandy, a masher.
3. (obsolete) The object of one’s affections (regardless of sex).

mash⁵

/mæʃ/

noun
plural mashes
1. (countable, MLE, slang) A gun.
  Quotations
  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
  2016, “Skeng Man”, Various performers of 67 (lyrics)‎
  Rise that heater, tap that mashThey don't come outside their flatsDecamp, decamp, aim this toolie at your hatThey piss us off on Snap, so we rise up and load them straps
  2020 July 2, “Stop Check”, Td of TPL (lyrics)‎
  Close man’s eyes, make them look ChineseOr do it like tits when the mash gets squeezedWhen we squeeze that mash,tell your boy don’t dashMe I just want cashBut if they want war let’s leave it at dat
  2021 October 19, “Exciting Freestyle”, 🇮🇪 #D15 Trigz (lyrics)‎
  If the mash empty, tell boy reload it
  2023 August 24, “Dri-Fit”, SWiTCH (lyrics)‎GRM Daily, 0:54
  Shoot my gun like Tommy ShеlbyIf I get close ching him out of his LVsSlimey as fuck, man took that mashProbably takе that grub that he sell me (Take that)
  2023 September 28, “Block Boy”, #Sinsquad Stewie (lyrics), 0:47

mash⁶

/mæʃ/

noun
1. Alternative form of maash (“mung bean”)