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View synonyms for hash house

hash house

noun

, Slang.
  1. an inexpensive restaurant, diner, or the like, that serves a limited number of short-order dishes:

    We stopped for lunch at a roadside hash house.



hash house

noun

  1. slang.
    a cheap café or restaurant
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of hash house1

An Americanism dating back to 1865–70
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Example Sentences

With the freedom of the camps he assaulted our ears and claimed the fellowship of men lost in the wilds of a hash house.

Poor Molly was an indifferent cook, and the food at Rainsford's hash-house was horrible.

We get pitched out of five before I steer him to a hash house.

We traveled along the road that leads from the hash house, and met a farmer with a gun.

He took her by the arm and piloted her across the thoroughfare, then into the dingy hash-house and to a table in a far corner.

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