Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A cheap boardinghouse.
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Examples
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He got Frank Sinatra to agree to play Tony, the vineyard owner who sees and falls in love with the San Francisco hash-house waitress, with Barbra portraying her.
Jay Weston: New Barbra Streisand Album Is Sublime Jay Weston 2011
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I've seen him eat in a ten-cent hash-house and pay fifty cents for the cigar he smoked afterward.
Chapter 36 2010
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He got Frank Sinatra to agree to play Tony, the vineyard owner who sees and falls in love with the San Francisco hash-house waitress, with Barbra portraying her.
Jay Weston: New Barbra Streisand Album Is Sublime Jay Weston 2011
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He got Frank Sinatra to agree to play Tony, the vineyard owner who sees and falls in love with the San Francisco hash-house waitress, with Barbra portraying her.
Jay Weston: New Barbra Streisand Album Is Sublime Jay Weston 2011
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He got Frank Sinatra to agree to play Tony, the vineyard owner who sees and falls in love with the San Francisco hash-house waitress, with Barbra portraying her.
Jay Weston: New Barbra Streisand Album Is Sublime Jay Weston 2011
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Now that she's running ads telling about her days as a waitress in a hash-house it won't be much longer until she'll revert back to the 2000 mom & apple pie ads.
Sound Politics: Seattle Times News Story Plays Editorial Page 2006
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Then we'll hunt us up a hash-house an 'put a big bate of ham an' aigs out of circulation, an 'go get us a couple more drinks, an' heel ourselves with a deck of cards an 'a couple bottles of cactus juice, an' hunt us up
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I've "grubbed" at a threepenny hash-house, I've been at a counter-lunch,
The Home of the Blizzard Being the Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914 Douglas Mawson 1920
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I've seen him eat in a ten-cent hash-house and pay fifty cents for the cigar he smoked afterward.
Chapter 36 1908
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I went along apiece to look at it and I think I know who it belongs to -- that there new Eyetalian hash-house feller in Guilford.
Radio Boys Loyalty Bill Brown Listens In Samuel Francis Aaron 1899
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