potato masher
See also: potato-masher
English
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/77/Potato_Masher.jpg/220px-Potato_Masher.jpg)
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2c/Potato_Masher_grenades.jpg/220px-Potato_Masher_grenades.jpg)
Alternative forms
Noun
potato masher (plural potato mashers)
- A utensil used to mash potatoes.
- Synonym: masher
- (military slang) A type of hand grenade resembling such a utensil.
- 1929, Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms, Folio Society 2008, p. 120:
- ‘A hand-grenade. One of those potato-mashers. It just blew the whole side of my foot off.’
- 1929, Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms, Folio Society 2008, p. 120:
Translations
utensil for mashing potatoes
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