Messages

Pronunciation

Noun

noun

1. Plural of message
2. (plurale tantum, Ireland, Scotland and Northern England) groceries
• 1983, Raymond McClean, The road to Bloody Sunday, page 119:I was going up the town to buy some messages.
• 1987, Pulpsmith, volume 6, page 275:A South African woman, just married to an Irishman and newly arrived in this country, was shocked when her husband told her, "I just saw yer man in the shop when I was getting the messages (groceries)." "My what?" "Yer man. ..."

Verb

1. messages

   (third-person singular of message)