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  • noun Alternative form of hash slinger.

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Examples

  • And after a year of that she became waitress in a cheap restaurant – hash-slinger, she called it.

    The Night-Born 2010

  • He said she was a hash-slinger before the Red Death, though I don't know what a hash-slinger is.

    Page 8 2010

  • She was the only wife I could find, even if she was a hash-slinger, as your father calls it.

    Page 8 2010

  • Lucy was frontier-born, of poor settlers who had removed to Seattle where she worked in a factory and a cheap restaurant as a "hash-slinger."

    “Samuel! There was a rolling wonder in the sound. Ay, there was!” 2008

  • Tracy is a cop patrolling the docks who falls for a real hash-slinger, Joan Bennett, who works at her family's restaurant.

    GreenCine Daily: Pre-Code Dispatch. 1. 2006

  • Their successors were still referred to by their natural enemies, the respectable ladies of the town, as “those awful eating house girls”; while the advent of a new “hash-slinger” was always a matter of considerable interest among the unmarried exquisites who fore-gathered at the White Camel.

    The Blood of the Conquerors Harvey Fergusson

  • And after a year of that she became waitress in a cheap restaurant -- hash-slinger, she called it.

    The Night Born 1913

  • She was the only wife I could find, even if she was a hash-slinger, as your father calls it.

    The Scarlet Plague 1912

  • He said she was a hash-slinger before the Red Death, though I don't know what a hash-slinger is.

    The Scarlet Plague 1912

  • And after a year of that she became waitress in a cheap restaurant — hash-slinger, she called it.

    The Night-Born 1911

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