A disagreeable mixture or confusion of things; hence, a situation resulting from blundering or from misunderstanding.

(colloquial) A large quantity or number.

(euphemistic) Excrement.

(figurative) A person in a state of (especially emotional) turmoil or disarray; an emotional wreck.

(collective) 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.

(from the old practice of dividing companies into sets of four at dinner) A set of four .

(US) The milk given by a cow at one milking.

(collective) A group of iguanas.

(cooking) A dessert of fruit and cream, similar to a fool.

(transitive, often used with "up") To make something untidy or dirty, or to make it soiled by defecating or ejaculating.

(transitive, often used with "up") To throw into disorder or to ruin.

(intransitive) To interfere.

(used with "with") To screw around with, to bother, to be annoying to.

(intransitive) To take meals with a mess.

(intransitive) To belong to a mess.

(intransitive) To eat (with others).

(transitive) To supply with a mess.