hash

¹

[hash]

noun

1. a dish of diced or chopped meat and often vegetables, as of leftover corned beef or veal and potatoes, sautéed in a frying pan, or of meat, potatoes, and carrots cooked together in gravy.

2. a mess, jumble, or muddle.

   a hash of unorganized facts and figures.

3. a reworking of old and familiar material.

   This essay is a hash of several earlier and better works.

4. Computers.

   1. garbage.

   2. hash value.

   3. hashing.

   4. hash mark.

   5. hash table.

5. Radio and Television Slang.,  electrical noise on an analog radio or, appearing as snow, in an analog television picture, caused by interfering outside sources that generate sparking.

verb (used with object)

1. to chop into small pieces; make into hash; mince.

2. to muddle or mess up.

   We thought we knew our parts, but when the play began we hashed the whole thing.

3. to discuss or review (something) thoroughly (often followed byout ).

   They hashed out every aspect of the issue.

verb phrase

1. hash over,  to bring up again for consideration; discuss, especially in review.

   At the class reunion they hashed over their college days.

hash

²

[hash]

noun

Slang.

1. hashish.

hash

¹

/ hæʃ /

noun

1. a dish of diced cooked meat, vegetables, etc, reheated in a sauce

2. something mixed up

3. a reuse or rework of old material

4. informal

   1. to mix or mess up

   2. to defeat or destroy

5. informal,  to subdue or silence someone

verb

1. to chop into small pieces

2. to mix or mess up

hash

²

/ hæʃ /

noun

1. the character (#) used to precede a number

2. this sign used in printing or writing to indicate that a space should be inserted

hash

³

/ hæʃ /

noun

1. slang,  short for hashish

Other Word Forms

• unhashed adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of hash¹

First recorded in 1645–55; from French hacher “to cut up,” derivative of hache “ax,” hatchet

Origin of hash²

By shortening

Word History and Origins

Origin of hash¹

C17: from Old French hacher to chop up, from hache _hatchet

Idioms and Phrases

Idioms

1. settle someone's hash, to stop, silence, or subdue.

   If she keeps badmouthing me, I'm going to have to settle her hash.

2. make a hash of, to spoil or botch.

   The new writer made a hash of his first assignment.

More idioms and phrases containing hash

• make a hash of
• settle someone's hash
• sling hash

Example Sentences

He explained that the GOP has “lots of ideas” but they aren’t going to talk about them now because that’s for “the next three months,” presumably while they hash out the One Big Beautiful Budget.

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Still, the most-favored-nation proposal kicked off a series of meetings between administration officials and drugmakers, including Pfizer, to hash out the details.

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Justice Kennedy might have spared the country a prolonged fit of insanity by plumping the other way in Obergefell and letting voters hash out the issue themselves.

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Kevin Rudd, along with a group of business leaders, hashed out the latest on climate change, artificial intelligence, and politics.

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Department of Agriculture, the Treasury and Commerce Departments, and the agriculture committees in Congress are working with the White House to hash out a bailout for farmers that could be announced Tuesday.

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