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What does mess mean?

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Noun
  1. (obsolete) Mass; a church service.
  2. (archaic) 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.
  3. A number of persons who eat together, and for whom food is prepared in common, especially military personnel who eat at the same table.
  4. A set of four (from the old practice of dividing companies into sets of four at dinner).
  5. (US) The milk given by a cow at one milking.
Verb
  1. (intransitive) To take meals with a mess.
  2. (intransitive) To belong to a mess.
  3. (intransitive) To eat (with others).
  4. (transitive) To supply with a mess.
Noun
  1. A disagreeable mixture or confusion of things; hence, a situation resulting from blundering or from misunderstanding; a disorder.
  2. (colloquial) A large quantity or number.
  3. (euphemistic) Excrement.
Verb
  1. (transitive) To make a mess of.
  2. (transitive) To throw into confusion.
  3. (intransitive) To interfere.
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