Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth 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.
- v. To chop into pieces; mince.
- v. Informal To make a mess of; mangle.
- 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.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To chop; especially, to chop into small pieces; mince; hence, to mangle.
- 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.
- A dialectal variant of harsh.
Wiktionary
- n. Food, especially meat and potatoes, chopped and mixed together. . corn-beef hash
- n. A confused mess.
- n. The # symbol (octothorpe, pound).
- n. computing The result generated by a hash function.
- adj. Hashed, chopped into small pieces
- adj. computing Of or relating to the process of hashing or hash coding
- v. transitive To chop into small pieces, to make into a hash.
- v. To make a quick, rough version
- v. computing, transitive To transform according to a hash function.
- n. Hashish, a drug derived from the cannabis plant.
GNU Webster's 1913
- 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. slang Hashish.
- v. To chop into small pieces; to mince and mix.
WordNet 3.0
- 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 French hacher ("to chop"), from Old French hache ("axe"). (Wiktionary)
- Variant of Middle English hache, from Old French, past participle of hacher, hachier, to chop up, from hache, ax, of Germanic origin; see hatchet. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“$hash {$assign} { 'repval'} = $tmpVal; print Dumper (\%hash); return (\%hash, @tmpArr);”
“$hash { 'foo'} = $hash { 'bar'} = 'some value'; which gets tedious with more than one hash key.”
“The word hash comes from the French hacher, meaning to chop.”
“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.”
“The other is the episode of Barney Miller where Wojo brings in hash brownies prepared by his girlfriend.”
“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.”
“This hash is one of my fallback lunches -- quick, easy and delicious.”
“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
“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
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘hash’.
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Yazhinni Spelling bee
tongue, stallion, scruple, salinity, schedule, rouge, populist, Permian, perspire, pasteurize, multitude, mournful and 227 more...
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webdev
random webdev lingo used primarily in computer programming.
( open list, randomness, technical jargon, geek speak )
more:
ajax, user, admin, frontend, backend, database, sql, protocol, call, dom, layout, ui and 439 more... -
Computers
Words that have different meanings pertaining to computers than in the "real" world.
root, terminal, windows, apple, crash, kernel, mouse, port, bus, key, shift, drive and 8 more...
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Intertanglement
A list of bejumble and minglement.
intertanglement, mixture, commingle, commixtion, immixture, hodgepodge, hotchpotch, intermixture, medley, minglement, mingle-mangle, blendure and 60 more...
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Marks
names of punctuation marks, accent marks, and other graphic signs and graphical characters used in printed, written, or digital text.
comma, period, parenthesis, apostrophe, colon, semicolon, slash, stroke, brackets, dash, em dash, en dash and 72 more...
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Phonestheme: -ASH, the Action Movie
Grateful credit to http://reocities.com/SoHo/Studios/9783/phond1.html.
crash, smash, dash, bash, brash, trash, rash, lash, thrash, cash, clash, flash and 7 more...
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the brothers
factotem, extrapolation, antinomy, antenome, pusillanimous, capons, caftan, pejorative, cropper, cowl, perfidious, fichu and 138 more...
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food
food, chef, spice, salt, sugar, pumpkin, apples, fruit, vegetable, savory, soup, sauce and 280 more...
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Interesting Foods
smelt, sprat, caviar, sushi, papadum, garlic naan, injera, doro wat, miso, pho, edamame, tataki and 170 more...
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New Words
smarmy, purge, linger, shimmer, fiercely, frantically, shove, grunt, errand, clench, wriggle, squeeze and 168 more...
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Into the mix
A medley of mixtures, mostly ones where the constituents are still distinct. I tagged kinds of stew.
mixture, commixture, admixture, intermixture, intermingling, commingling, mingling, marriage, union, integration, syncretion, permutation and 129 more...
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the hotlist
short, sweet, epic, catchy, sassy, sexy & sizzling.
( personal list, randomness )
more:
http://www.wordnik.com/lists/...zing, epic, win, fail, hot, warp, times, clip, onyx, wonky, pwn, leet and 1493 more...
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a few programming words
a few Programming words
syntax, function, method, variable, scalar, perl, java, c++, hash, regular expression, operator, evaluate and 20 more...
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tomduck's geeky words
obfuscate, recursive, idempotent, intractable, integer, spline, tesselate, node, tree, axis, delta, interleave and 68 more...
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Food
Some of my favourite cooking and eating terms, some obscure, some so common as to be misunderstood.
sommelier, gustatory, oenophile, macedoine, bouquet garni, mince, braise, olio, cassoulet, render, larding, barding and 57 more...
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jester11's Words
Tweets
Looking for tweets for hash.

johnmperry UK: the symbol # Jul 22, 2008