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mashed

UK/mæʃt/US/mæʃt/
adjectiveB1Common in everyday speech and writing · #4,313 of 15,258leans spoken

Mashed means crushed to a soft pulp. No lumps, if you have done it properly.

Potatoes are what get mashed in Britain more than anything else, and mashed potato is such a fixture that mash on its own means it. Bananas and avocados get the same treatment. The tool is a masher and the verb is mash. There is an informal sense meaning drunk or exhausted, which is chiefly British. Sausage and mash is one of the fixed pairs of the English menu.

Definitions of mashed

  1. 1adjectivemashedCrushed into a soft pulpy mass.B1

    “He ate mashed potato and nothing else.”

Practised in A Man Called Ove

First appears in chapter 26 of A Man Called Ove.

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mashed in the wild

  • In this dish, after being boiled and then mashed into a paste, the beans are fried or baked (though they are fried only once).

    Refried beans

  • Roughly mashed potatoes are sometimes called smashed potatoes.

    Mashed potato

  • Dehydrated instant mashed potatoes and frozen mashed potatoes are available.

    Mashed potato

  • Smash is a brand of instant mashed potato in the United Kingdom.

    Smash (instant mashed potato)

  • Champ is an Irish dish of mashed potatoes with scallions, butter and milk.

    Champ (food)

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