potato masher
See also: potato-masher
English
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.’
Translations
utensil for mashing potatoes
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Further reading
- Stielhandgranate on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
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