hash1
[hash]
- 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.
- a mess, jumble, or muddle: a hash of unorganized facts and figures.
- a reworking of old and familiar material: This essay is a hash of several earlier and better works.
- Computers. garbage(def 7).
- Radio and Television Slang. electrical noise on a radio or snow in a television picture caused by interfering outside sources that generate sparking.
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- to chop into small pieces; make into hash; mince.
- to muddle or mess up: We thought we knew our parts, but when the play began we hashed the whole thing.
- to discuss or review (something) thoroughly (often followed by out): They hashed out every aspect of the issue.
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- hash over, to bring up again for consideration; discuss, especially in review: At the class reunion they hashed over their college days.
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- make a hash of, to spoil or botch: The new writer made a hash of his first assignment.
- settle someone's hash, Informal. to get rid of; subdue: Her blunt reply really settled my hash.
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Origin of hash1
Synonyms
See more synonyms for hash on Thesaurus.com10. bungle, butcher, muddle, mess up, flub. 9. review, recall, reminisce, recollect, remember.
hash2
[hash]
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Origin of hash2
by shortening
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Examples from the Web for hash
Contemporary Examples
And they'll sit down to hash out the important concerns of both sides.
Hopes for Religion in 2014 Include Tolerance, More Women, Less PoliticsJoshua DuBois
December 22, 2013
Despite the vests, a guy walked up and tried to sell them hash.
From T-shirts to placards to hash tags, “Where is Amarildo?”
Once successfully in, I can see my Hash 160 and Taint Analysis, among other things.
Others make hash, hash oil, and specialty bud with more than 25 percent THC.
Historical Examples
There is no definition for this word—nobody knows what hash is.
The Devil's DictionaryAmbrose Bierce
As for poor Talien, who was playing Don Guritan, he made a hash of it every minute.
My Double LifeSarah Bernhardt
Rub it through a sieve, return it to the stewpan, put in the hash, and let it stand by the side of the fire till the meat is warm.
He had supper with the boys, and his food was hash and tea and dry bread.
The Night RidersRidgwell Cullum
The landlady admitted that a souffle was something not unlike a hash.
Cap'n Warren's WardsJoseph C. Lincoln
hash1
- a dish of diced cooked meat, vegetables, etc, reheated in a sauce
- something mixed up
- a reuse or rework of old material
- make a hash of informal
- to mix or mess up
- to defeat or destroy
- settle someone's hash or fix someone's hash informal to subdue or silence someone
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- to chop into small pieces
- to mix or mess up
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Word Origin
C17: from Old French hacher to chop up, from hache hatchet
hash2
- slang short for hashish
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hash3
hash mark
- the character (#) used to precede a number
- this sign used in printing or writing to indicate that a space should be inserted
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Word Origin and History for hash
v.
1650s, "to hack, chop into small pieces," from French hacher "chop up," from Old French hache "ax" (see hatchet). Hash browns is short for hash browned potatoes (1917), with the -ed omitted, as in mash potatoes. The hash marks on a football field were so called 1960s, from similarity to hash marks, armed forces slang for "service stripes on the sleeve of a military uniform" (1909), which supposedly were called that because they mark the number of years one has had free food (hash (n.1)) from the Army; but perhaps there is a connection with the noun form of hatch (v.2).
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n.2
short for hashish, 1959.
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n.1
"a stew," 1660s, from hash (v.). Meaning "a mix, a mess" is from 1735.
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Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
hash
(hăsh)- Hashish.
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Idioms and Phrases with hash
hash
In addition to the idiom beginning with hash
- hash over
also see:
- make a hash of
- settle someone's hash
- sling hash
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