| mess | (noun) a (large) military dining room where service personnel eat or relax | Synonyms: mess hall |
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| (noun) a meal eaten in a mess hall by service personnel | - |
| (noun) soft semiliquid food | - |
| (noun) (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent | Synonyms: batch, deal, flock, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, lot, mass, mickle, mint, mountain, muckle, passel, peck, pile, plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, sight, slew, spate, stack, tidy sum, wad |
| (noun) a state of confusion and disorderliness | Synonyms: messiness, muss, mussiness |
| (noun) informal terms for a difficult situation | Synonyms: fix, hole, jam, kettle of fish, muddle, pickle |
| (verb) make a mess of or create disorder in | Synonyms: mess up |
| (verb) eat in a mess hall | - |