Read the dictionary definition of mess. All definitions for this word.
1. a (large) military dining room where service personnel eat or relax
2. a meal eaten in a mess hall by service personnel
3. soft semiliquid food
1. a mess of porridge
4. (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent
1. a batch of letters
2. a deal of trouble
3. a lot of money
4. he made a mint on the stock market
5. see the rest of the winners in our huge passel of photos
6. it must have cost plenty
7. a slew of journalists
8. a wad of money
5. informal terms for a difficult situation
1. he got into a terrible fix
2. he made a muddle of his marriage
6. a state of confusion and disorderliness
1. the house was a mess
2. she smoothed the mussiness of the bed
7. make a mess of or create disorder in
1. He messed up his room
8. eat in a mess hall