Definition of "mashers" [mashers]

• Plural form of masher. (noun)

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• "For a like reason the Yellow Bedstraw has become known as "Petty mugget," from the French _petit muguet_, a little dandy, as applied in ridicule to effeminate young men, the _Jemmy Jessamies_, or "mashers" of the period."
• "Let some brazen woman take the place of one of these street "mashers," and proceed to ogle passers-by, and see how quickly the police would gather her in."
• "He himself had seen a group of the odious "mashers" with his own eyes; Buck had pointed them out as they walked up."