potato masher
See also: potato-masher
English
The kitchen utensil.
Several grenades. Potato mashers are in the centre of the image, the short cylinders with long cylindrical handles.
Alternative forms
Noun
potato masher (plural potato mashers)
- A utensil used to mash potatoes.
- Synonym: masher
- (military slang) A type of stick hand grenade resembling such a utensil.
- 1929 May–October, Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms, 1st British edition, London: Jonathan Cape […], published 1929, →OCLC, book II, page 131:
- ‘A hand-grenade. One of those potato-mashers. It just blew the whole side of my foot off.’
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Translations
utensil for mashing potatoes
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Further reading
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