Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
- n. A dish of chopped meat, potatoes, and sometimes vegetables, usually browned.
- n. A jumble; a hodgepodge.
- n. Informal A mess: made a hash of the project.
- n. A reworking or restatement of already familiar material.
- transitive v. To chop into pieces; mince.
- transitive v. Informal To make a mess of; mangle.
- transitive v. Informal To discuss carefully; review: hash over future plans; hash out a solution.
- idiom settle (someone's) hash Slang To silence or subdue.
- n. Slang Hashish.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
- n. Food, especially meat and potatoes, chopped and mixed together. corn-beef hash
- n. A confused mess.
- n. The # symbol (octothorpe, pound).
- n. The result generated by a hash function.
- adj. Hashed, chopped into small pieces
- adj. Of or relating to the process of hashing or hash coding
- v. To chop into small pieces, to make into a hash.
- v. To make a quick, rough version
- v. To transform according to a hash function.
- n. Hashish, a drug derived from the cannabis plant.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- n. That which is hashed or chopped up; meat and vegetables, especially such as have been already cooked, chopped into small pieces and mixed.
- n. A new mixture of old matter; a second preparation or exhibition.
- n. Hashish.
- transitive v. To chop into small pieces; to mince and mix.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To chop; especially, to chop into small pieces; mince; hence, to mangle.
- A dialectal variant of harsh.
- n. That which is hashed or chopped; especially, minced meat.
- n. Specifically, a dish of meat and potatoes, previously cooked, chopped up together and cooked again.
- n. Hence Any mixture and second preparation of old material; a repetition; a reëxhibition.
- n. A sloven; a country clown; a stupid or silly fellow.
- n. Low raillery; ribaldry.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- n. chopped meat mixed with potatoes and browned
- v. chop up
- n. purified resinous extract of the hemp plant; used as a hallucinogen
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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$hash {$assign} { 'repval'} = $tmpVal; print Dumper (\%hash); return (\%hash, @tmpArr);
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$hash { 'foo'} = $hash { 'bar'} = 'some value'; which gets tedious with more than one hash key.
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$con - > query ( "FLUSH PRIVILEGES;"); else my $query2 = $con - > query ( "SELECT User FROM db WHERE Db = '". $dbname. "'" ); while (my \% hash = $query2 - > fetchhash) my $user = $hash {0};
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The word hash comes from the French hacher, meaning to chop.
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He comes home tired from work, and desperately in need of a good dinner as a restorative; but the plain cook gives him cold meat and pickles, or an abomination which she calls hash, and the brilliant creature, full of mind, thinks the desire for anything else rank sensuality.
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The other is the episode of Barney Miller where Wojo brings in hash brownies prepared by his girlfriend.
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You might return to the Moon (Doubt it) But even if you do, you will not be staying there with this retro re hash from the past.
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This hash is one of my fallback lunches -- quick, easy and delicious.
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Riham we are not here to judge, this is not our job ..!!, and sending such wrong picture about islam is not right at all .. better go and bust those working in hash industries with no threats at alll
Global Voices in English » Egypt: Prison Awaits Those who don’t Fast in Ramadan
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For a nation where smoking hash is ingrained in the culture, the shortage has come as a shock.
Drug Smokers In Egypt Suffer Hashish Shortage After Crackdown | Impact Lab
chained_bear commented on the word hash
"The availability of all this fresh produce enlivened still further the fancy compound dishes, the carbonadoes, fricassées, olios (as the hodge podge was now more usually known) and the hashes (from 'hacher', to slice) that aped the sophisticated fashions of Continental Europe."
--Kate Colquhoun, Taste: The Story of Britain Through Its Cooking (NY: Bloomsbury, 2007), 133
January 11, 2017
johnmperry commented on the word hash
UK: the symbol #
July 23, 2008