messes

noun

Meaning

A disagreeable mixture or confusion of things; hence, a situation resulting from blundering or from misunderstanding; disorder.
A large quantity or number.
Excrement.
A person in a state of (especially emotional) turmoil or disarray; an emotional wreck.
(transitive, often used with "up") To make untidy or dirty.
(transitive, often used with "up") To throw into disorder or to ruin.
To interfere.
(used with "with") To screw around with, to bother, to be annoying to.
Mass; a church service.
A quantity of food set on a table at one time; provision of food for a person or party for one meal; also, the food given to an animal at one time.
A number of persons who eat together, and for whom food is prepared in common, especially military personnel who eat at the same table.
A building or room in which mess is eaten.
A set of four (from the old practice of dividing companies into sets of four at dinner).
The milk given by a cow at one milking.
To take meals with a mess.
To belong to a mess.
To eat (with others).
To supply with a mess.

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