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hasher

American  
[hash-er] / ˈhæʃ ər /

noun

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


Etymology

Origin of hasher

First recorded in 1835–45; hash 1 + -er 1

Example Sentences

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“It’s your thing or it’s not,” said District 69, who became a hasher after she moved to the District from South Africa.

From Washington Post

In his job as hasher, he can toss up crepes Belvedere or lecture the young women of the sorority on table manners.

From Time Magazine Archive

No puddle passed without a hasher jumping in two-footed to splash the others.

From Washington Post

With acidulous hauteur, he enrolls as a freshman at Clemens University, gets a job as hasher at the Triple Gamma sorority house, and sets out to take four years of higher education in one.

From Time Magazine Archive

Freighter Sam used to bang her head agin the door jamb about twict a week, and they got along good until he fell for a hasher in an eatin’ house and quit Isabelle cold.

From The Fighting Shepherdess by Lockhart, Caroline

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