sling hash

Idioms  

1. Serve food in a restaurant, especially a cheap establishment. For example, The only job she could find was slinging hash in the neighborhood diner. This term alludes to the inelegant presentation and nature of the food, in effect, tossing hash before a customer. [Slang; mid-1800s]

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Example Sentences

The church used to sling hash for 24 hours, but now the stand generally runs from 6 a.m. to 10 p.m.

From Washington Times • Aug. 12, 2017

I want to rekindle that feeling when I was a kid and got to sit at the counter on the swivel stool and watch those giants sling hash like well-oiled machines.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 12, 2014

Unless the school board, the food service manager and I can learn more imaginative ways to sling hash, "biting the bullet" may end up on the school menus.

From Time Magazine Archive

If Sal calculates to go into mourning for every man she has to sling hash to, we'd recommend her to buy up Briggs' stock and take one of Pat Hoolan's carriages for the season.

From Gabriel Conroy by Harte, Bert