Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The symbol (#); the pound sign.
- noun A dish of chopped meat, potatoes, and sometimes vegetables, usually browned.
- noun A jumble; a hodgepodge.
- noun Informal A mess.
- noun A reworking or restatement of already familiar material.
- transitive verb To chop into pieces; mince.
- transitive verb Informal To make a mess of; mangle.
- transitive verb Informal To discuss carefully; review.
- noun Hashish.
from The Century Dictionary.
- A dialectal variant of
harsh . - To chop; especially, to chop into small pieces; mince; hence, to mangle.
- noun That which is hashed or chopped; especially, minced meat.
- noun Specifically, a dish of meat and potatoes, previously cooked, chopped up together and cooked again.
- noun Hence Any mixture and second preparation of old material; a repetition; a reëxhibition.
- noun A sloven; a country clown; a stupid or silly fellow.
- noun Low raillery; ribaldry.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To chop into small pieces; to mince and mix.
- noun That which is hashed or chopped up; meat and vegetables, especially such as have been already cooked, chopped into small pieces and mixed.
- noun A new mixture of old matter; a second preparation or exhibition.
- noun slang Hashish.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun
Food , especially meat and potatoes,chopped andmixed together. corn-beef hash - noun A
confused mess . - noun The
# symbol (octothorpe ,pound ). - noun computing The result generated by a
hash function . - adjective Hashed,
chopped into small pieces - adjective computing Of or relating to the process of
hashing or hash coding - verb transitive To
chop into smallpieces , to make into a hash. - verb To make a quick, rough version
- verb computing, transitive To transform according to a
hash function . - noun
Hashish , a drug derived from thecannabis plant.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun chopped meat mixed with potatoes and browned
- verb chop up
- noun purified resinous extract of the hemp plant; used as a hallucinogen
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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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};
unknown title Kevin Rasmussen 2008
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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.
Modern Women and What is Said of Them A Reprint of A Series of Articles in the Saturday Review (1868) Lucia Gilbert [Commentator] Calhoun 1860
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This hash is one of my fallback lunches -- quick, easy and delicious.
Archive 2009-01-01 Laura 2009
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This hash is one of my fallback lunches -- quick, easy and delicious.
Southwestern Sweet Potato Hash Served With Cabbage & Corn Slaw With Cilantro-Orange Dressing Laura 2009
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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 2009
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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.
johnmperry commented on the word hash
UK: the symbol #
July 23, 2008
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