Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
- transitive v. To bring forth again in another form without significant alteration: rehashing old ideas.
- transitive v. To discuss again.
- n. The act or result of rehashing: a rehash of an old plot.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
- v. To rework old material (physical material, ideas, documents etc), redo some work, with some variations.
- n. Something reworked, or made up from old materials.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- n. Something hashed over, or made up from old materials.
- transitive v. To hash over again; to prepare or use again.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To hash anew; work up, as old material, in a new form.
- n. Something hashed afresh; something concocted from materials formerly used: as, a literary rehash.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- v. present or use over, with no or few changes
- v. go back over
- n. old material that is slightly reworked and used again
Etymologies
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Examples
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Usually a Singapore newspaper's idea of football coverage is tired old rehash from the English media with the odd headline about the local game if there is something nice and negative they can talk about or when it involves the Malaysia Cup days.
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I’m sorry, I don’t need critics to tell me that Ultraviolet is just another rehash from a notoriously lame genre … the action-chick-flick.
EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - For those of you wanting to see Ultraviolet
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Bush’s Iraq rehash is a national strategy for failure:
Think Progress » Rapid Response: Deconstructing the “National Strategy for Victory in Iraq”
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Bright-Sided is especially strong in its critique of Rhonda Byrne's The Secret, which Ehrenreich identifies as a rehash of earlier self-help books, and even of some principles of magic.
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The nine o'clock is to kind of rehash the sort of analysis that we were going over the night before, to see if the premises and hypotheses that we had come up with the night before have come to pass, and what's the video evidence.
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The 9 o'clock is to kind of rehash the sort of analysis that we were going over the night before, to see if the premises and hypotheses that we had come up with the night before have come to pass, and what's the video evidence.
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The 9 o'clock is to kind of rehash the sort of analysis that we were going over the night before to see if the premises and hypotheses we had come up with the night before have come to pass, and what's the video evidence.
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That won't fly, not just because of the increasing "rehash" meme, but you can't really play comeback kid as establishment against a newcomer underdog.
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By my count 32 of the 53, you listed are "rehash".
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You can compare with the list from the other books and see how much appears to be "rehash":
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