A machine used for pressing and smoothing clothes, sheets, etc., by means of heated rollers.
The hotel laundry room was equipped with a large mangler to ensure all linens were perfectly pressed.
A person who mangles or damages something.
The editor was known as a mangler of manuscripts, often leaving them in worse shape than when they were submitted.
Computing: a program, algorithm, or component that transforms identifiers (such as function or variable names) into another format, especially during compilation or obfuscation processes.
The C++ compiler's name mangler encodes type information into the generated symbol names.