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as in crush
a strong but often short-lived liking for another person she's usually got a mash on moviedom's hunk du jour

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mash

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verb

1
as in to squeeze
to apply external pressure on so as to force out the juice or contents of this press can mash 10 bushels of apples at a time

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as in to crush
to cause to become a pulpy mass mash the ripe banana before adding it to the mixture

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Recent Examples of mash
Noun
Teams that win big in October usually mash. Jason Lloyd, New York Times, 2 Oct. 2025 To craft this new expression, Woodford Reserve's Master Distiller Elizabeth McCall used a pre-Prohibition style mash bill of 53% rye, the same mash bill as Woodford Reserve Rye. Amanda Hancock, Louisville Courier Journal, 2 Oct. 2025
Verb
In some Asian cultures, mung beans are cooked and mashed to form a sweet dessert paste. Jennifer Lefton, Verywell Health, 20 Oct. 2025 Try mashing a quarter of a ripe avocado and spreading it on your bread slices. Sarah Garone, Health, 17 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for mash
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Noun
  • With the crush of post-fire cancellations, her family may be forced to pursue the matter as a last-ditch effort to sustain this resource bridge between northern Arizona destinations.
    Joan Meiners, AZCentral.com, 20 Oct. 2025
  • During a 2019 visit to The Ellen DeGeneres Show, Sophia sat in the audience while Ed shared a story about doing a project with her celebrity crush.
    Emy LaCroix, PEOPLE, 20 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • In a sector already squeezed by rising land prices, material costs, and labor shortages, those weeks of manual quantification represent millions of dollars in overhead that never swing a hammer.
    Jon Stojan, USA Today, 21 Oct. 2025
  • Made mostly of muscle without a bone in their bodies, these wonderful weirdos can squeeze into spaces scarcely bigger than their eyeballs.
    Kate Siber, Outside, 21 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Here, traditional saa paper is made by hand from the bark of mulberry trees: soaked, pulped, and pressed into delicate sheets embedded with local flowers and leaves.
    Lauren Mowery, Forbes.com, 18 June 2025
  • There is enough current in the lakes to float logs, and there was pulping activity somewhere above us.
    Robeson Bailey, Outdoor Life, 11 June 2025
Verb
  • Mum used whatever kind of squash the sabziwala (vegetable seller) brought that week.
    Romy Gill, Saveur, 22 Oct. 2025
  • Thus, even if a farmer primarily relied on corn for sustenance and/or trade, planting beans and squash alongside the maize increased the nutritive value of the same area.
    JSTOR Daily, JSTOR Daily, 14 Oct. 2025

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“Mash.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mash. Accessed 28 Oct. 2025.

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