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Jamaican Patois · Verbs and actions

Mash up

To break, destroy — or a great time

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What “Mash up” means

Mash up usually means broken, damaged or destroyed: a phone, a car or a road can mash up. But at a party it flips: "di party did mash up" means it was amazing. Context tells you which one is meant.

Examples

Di road mash up, up deh so

The road is damaged up there.

Di phone mash up

The phone is broken

Di party did mash up

The party was amazing

How to use it

An everyday phrase. The "great time" sense belongs to parties, dances and events; for things and places it means damaged.