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[ hash ]

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noun

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.

verb (used with object)

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.

Verb Phrases

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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Idioms

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.

Origin of hash

1645–55; < French hacher to cut up, derivative of hache ax, hatchet

SYNONYMS FOR hash

10 bungle, butcher, muddle, mess up, flub.

9 review, recall, reminisce, recollect, remember.

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Related formsun·hashed, adjective

Definition for hash (2 of 2)

hash

[ hash ]

/ hæʃ /

noun Slang.

hashish.

Origin of hash

by shortening

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Examples from the Web for hash

And they'll sit down to hash out the important concerns of both sides.
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Despite the vests, a guy walked up and tried to sell them hash.
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From T-shirts to placards to hash tags, “Where is Amarildo?”
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Once successfully in, I can see my Hash 160 and Taint Analysis, among other things.
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Others make hash, hash oil, and specialty bud with more than 25 percent THC.
Why Legalizing Marijuana on Election Day Might Not Be a Good Idea|Tony Doukopil|October 29, 2012|DAILY BEAST
The hash is made of the pieces of bread and meat left over from the preceding day.
The Twin Hells|John N. Reynolds
Typical examples are: one fellow threatening another says, 'I'll break your head for you': or 'I'll soon settle his hash for him.'
English As We Speak It in Ireland|P. W. Joyce
The tin tea-pot was set on the stove, and hash was warmed up in the spider.
Atlantic Monthly,Volume 14, No. 82, August, 1864|Various
It looks like a plate of hash and that's the way it's pronounced.
Cape Cod Stories|Joseph C. Lincoln
"Hash and beef cutlets and chicken for roast," she answered, smiling somewhat sourly.
A Family of Noblemen|Mikhal Saltykov

British Dictionary definitions for hash (1 of 3)

hash

/ (hæʃ) /

noun

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

verb (tr)

to chop into small pieces

to mix or mess up

Word Origin for hash

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

British Dictionary definitions for hash (2 of 3)

hash

/ (hæʃ) /

noun

slang short for hashish

British Dictionary definitions for hash (3 of 3)

hash

hash mark

/ (hæʃ) /

noun

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 (1 of 3)

hash

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).

Word Origin and History for hash (1 of 3)

hash

n.2

short for hashish, 1959.

Word Origin and History for hash (2 of 3)

hash

n.1

"a stew," 1660s, from hash (v.). Meaning "a mix, a mess" is from 1735.

Medicine definitions for hash

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[ hăsh ]

n.

Hashish.

Idioms and Phrases with hash

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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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