The Collaborative International Dictionary
mashed potatoes \mashed potatoes\, n. pl. Potatoes which have been boiled and mashed to a pulpy consistency, usu. with sparing addition of milk, salt, butter, or other flavoring. It is a popular accompaniment to a meat course [U.S., 1900's], providing bulk and calories to a meal.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context uncountable English) potato that have been boiled and mashed to a pulpy consistency. 2 (mashed potato English)Category:English plurals 3 (context skiing English) Partially melted snow with a pulpy texture, making for slow skiing.
Wikipedia
__NOTOC__ "(Do the) Mashed Potatoes" is a rhythm and blues instrumental. It was recorded by James Brown with his band in 1959 and released as a two-part single in 1960. For contractual reasons the recording was credited to "Nat Kendrick and the Swans".
Mashed Potatoes was Steve Alaimo's second album for Checker Records. Like his previous album, it capitalizes on a dance craze, only this time, the Mashed Potato.
Usage examples of "mashed potatoes".
I figured to have it with mashed potatoes and gravy and some lima beans.
Then, ever hopeful of more mashed potatoes, he leapt from the back of the truck and followed me inside, as I trailed after the gurney Rob was on.
Spoons ate up the clear cranberry jelly, and gouged deep into the mashed potatoes, and ladled away the brown gravies.
I force myself to consume substantial luncheons of steak and kidney pud and mashed potatoes in the pub opposite the Old Bailey, and I do this in order to ward off infection and prevent weakness during the afternoon.
Then there had been the night when the old man had suddenly gotten up and rubbed a handful of mashed potatoes into Eddie's hair for no reason at all.
He ate some more mashed potatoes then said, Where you find most of the runaways go?
A typical Whip-pie dinner, served at high noon in the heat of the day, consisted of fish chowder, roast beef with Yorkshire pudding, creamed cabbage cooked in ham fat, delicious chewy biscuits made of taro and drenched in butter, mashed potatoes, candied yams, pickled mango, alligator pear salad with heavy dressing, French bread with guava jelly, banana pie marvelously thick and rich, followed by coffee with cream, and cigars.