hash-slinger

[hash-sling-er]

noun

Slang.

1. a waiter or waitress, especially in a hash house.

2. a short-order cook.

Word History and Origins

Origin of hash-slinger¹

An Americanism dating back to 1865–70

Example Sentences

At a truck stop Krass meets Johnny, a waifish, boyish-looking hash-slinger played by Jane Birkin, Gainsbourg’s wife at the time.

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On the other, it celebrates the American vernacular in the form of Central California whistle-stops, working-class bungalows and Joan Blondell’s impersonating a tipsy hash-slinger out for a night on the town.

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Whether it was a Frisco hash-slinger or a refined bar-lady along the seaboard made no difference to Klondyke.

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The pudding-faced man in the hash-slinger's hat and white starched jacket was blowing his heart into an old World War I bugle.

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It was inconceivable that Birdie––or, as he mentally apostrophized her, “this blamed hash-slinger”––should so flout him.

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