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hash

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[ hash ]

noun

  1. 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.
  2. a mess, jumble, or muddle:

    a hash of unorganized facts and figures.

  3. a reworking of old and familiar material:

    This essay is a hash of several earlier and better works.

  4. Computers.
  5. 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)

  1. to chop into small pieces; make into hash; mince.
  2. to muddle or mess up:

    We thought we knew our parts, but when the play began we hashed the whole thing.

  3. to discuss or review (something) thoroughly (often followed by out ):

    They hashed out every aspect of the issue.

verb phrase

  1. to bring up again for consideration; discuss, especially in review:

    At the class reunion they hashed over their college days.

hash

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[ hash ]

noun

Slang.

hash

1

/ æʃ /

noun

  1. a dish of diced cooked meat, vegetables, etc, reheated in a sauce
  2. something mixed up
  3. a reuse or rework of old material
  4. make a hash of informal.
    1. to mix or mess up
    2. to defeat or destroy
  5. settle someone's hash or fix someone's hash informal.
    to subdue or silence someone
“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

verb

  1. to chop into small pieces
  2. to mix or mess up
“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

hash

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/ æʃ /

noun

  1. slang.
    short for hashish
“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

hash

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/ æʃ /

noun

  1. the character (#) used to precede a number
  2. this sign used in printing or writing to indicate that a space should be inserted
“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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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of hash1

First recorded in 1645–55; from French hacher “to cut up,” derivative of hache “a,” hatchet

Origin of hash2

By shortening
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of hash1

C17: from Old French hacher to chop up, from hache hatchet
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Idioms and Phrases

  1. make a hash of, to spoil or botch:

    The new writer made a hash of his first assignment.

  2. 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 .
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Example Sentences

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The final amount that the city pays out to Rangel may change, as such figures are often appealed and later hashed out in post-trial hearings.

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I made homemade pesto pasta with salmon for dinner and a sweet potato hash topped with a runny egg for breakfast.

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Normally, this sort of thing would be hashed out at the staff level.

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"You have my cell, always happy to talk privately or publicly on either of our shows because these conversations are reductive to hash out on social media."

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By February of 2024, its members were already hashing out a contingency plan for a second Trump presidency.

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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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