Mash - Definition and Overview

• Mash is a mixture of hot water and crushed malted grain, usually barley, maize or wheat, which forms an early step in the production of beer and several distilled beverages. The mash is strained to give a sweet liquid called wort, which is then fermented to produce alcohol. See: brewing.
• Mash was a son of Aram mentioned in the Book of Genesis of the Hebrew Bible.
• Mash is a colloquial term occasionally used to refer to mashed potatoes. As such, it is a vital component of the British culinary mainstay bangers and mash.
• A mash note is a grade-school love-letter.
• "MASH" (or "M.A.S.H.") is a commonly used acronym for the phrase "Mobile Army Surgical Hospital".
• M*A*S*H is the title of a novel by Richard Hooker, later adapted into a film and a television program concerning the events in a fictional U.S. Mobile Army Surgical Hospital in Korea during the Korean War. See M*A*S*H (movie) and M*A*S*H (TV series).
• Mashing is a kind of pop music remix.
• Mashing is also a term for pedalling a bicycle at a slow cadence with high force.