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View synonyms for hash browns

hash browns

or hash-browns, hashbrowns

plural noun

  1. crisp-fried potatoes made by dicing, chopping, or mashing boiled potatoes and browning them in hot fat or oil.


hash browns

plural noun

  1. diced boiled potatoes mixed with chopped onion, shaped and fried until brown
“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 browns1

First recorded in 1950–55
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Example Sentences

In my restaurant days we’d serve them atop kale salads and bowls of biscuits and gravy, or you could pile them on pasta or alongside crispy hash browns.

Before being shortened to “hash browns,” the dish was called “hashed and browned potatoes,” the first known mention of which comes from “Miss Parloa’s Kitchen Companion,” published in 1887.

Restaurant described latkes as “Mini hash browns,” which he thinks is why they are so universally beloved.

She forked up a mouthful of hash browns and chased them with coffee.

Incredibly, the food kept coming—multiple syrup-jugs, plates of hash-browns, baskets of biscuits and bowls of white sausage gravy.

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