mess: signification et définitions

A disorderly or dirty accumulation, heap, or jumble: left a mess in the yard.

A cluttered, untidy, usually dirty condition: The kitchen was a mess.

A confused, troubling, or embarrassing condition; a muddle: With divorce and bankruptcy proceedings pending, his personal life was in a mess.

One that is in such a condition: clothes that were a mess after painting the ceiling; made a mess of their marriage.

An amount of food, as for a meal, course, or dish: cooked up a mess of fish.

A serving of soft, semiliquid food: a mess of porridge.

A group of people, usually soldiers or sailors, who regularly eat meals together.

Food or a meal served to such a group: took mess with the enlistees.

A mess hall.

To make disorderly or soiled; clutter or foul: a puppy that still messes the floor.

To botch; bungle.

To cause or make a mess.

To use or handle something carelessly; fiddle: messed with the blender until he broke it.

To intrude; interfere: messing in the neighbors' affairs.

To take a meal in a military mess.

mess around Informal To pass time in aimless puttering.

mess around Informal To associate casually or playfully: liked to mess around with pals on days off.

mess around Informal Informal To be sexually unfaithful.

mess up Informal To make a mistake, especially from nervousness or confusion: messed up and dropped the ball.

mess up Slang To beat up; manhandle: got messed up in a brawl.