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hash
1[ hash ]
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.
- Radio and Television Slang. electrical noise on an analog radio or, appearing as snow, in an analog 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 phrase
- to bring up again for consideration; discuss, especially in review:
At the class reunion they hashed over their college days.
hash
2[ hash ]
noun
hash
1/ hæʃ /
hash
2/ 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
- to chop into small pieces
- to mix or mess up
hash
3/ hæʃ /
noun
- the character (#) used to precede a number
- this sign used in printing or writing to indicate that a space should be inserted
Other Words From
- un·hashed adjective
Word History and Origins
Origin of hash1
Origin of hash2
Word History and Origins
Origin of hash1
Idioms and Phrases
- make a hash of, to spoil or botch:
The new writer made a hash of his first assignment.
- settle someone's hash, Informal. to stop, silence, or subdue:
If she keeps badmouthing me, I'm going to have to settle her hash.
More idioms and phrases containing hash
In addition to the idiom beginning with hash , also see make a hash of ; settle someone's hash ; sling hash .Example Sentences
While, again, you can use whatever arrangement of roasted vegetables you like, you should also consider checking out Becky Krystal’s guide to the best hash ever.
The heat map for Stafford heading into the game showed that while the Viking pass defense was weak over the middle and up the hashes, so was Stafford, making him ill-equipped to take advantage of their vulnerabilities.
Between the hashes, Jackson’s off-target heat map shows almost no pink from 0 to 25 yards downfield, indicating that his throws to that area are on time and on target.
In Idaho, at a place called Templin’s Grill near Coeur d’Alene, they found excellent steak and hash browns.
If you’re the minority party, using the filibuster to make a hash out of the majority party’s agenda makes perfect sense.
Restaurant described latkes as “Mini hash browns,” which he thinks is why they are so universally beloved.
Ex-hippie Billy Hayes was busted for smuggling hash and thrown in a terrifying Turkish prison.
Now in his early thirties, his cheeks are sunken from smoking too much hash.
Kip Thorne served as an executive producer on the film and helped hash out a lot of the science.
Dabbing wax on the coil or using hash oil on the wick also works.
Do you know the story of the man who found a button in his hash, and called the waiter?
I do skin off the potatoes and schop up the meat for the hash, and Babette, she do sweep with the broom and set out the table.
I was afraid you would notice it,” observed his son; “it made such a beastly hash of the table.
Mrs Simon's volume, though pretentious enough to be original, is neither more nor less than a re-hash of Kingsborough's labors.
I told the cook to fix up something extra, and dare say you'll find it better hash than yours.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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