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- noun Alternative form of
hash slinger .
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Examples
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And after a year of that she became waitress in a cheap restaurant – hash-slinger, she called it.
The Night-Born 2010
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He said she was a hash-slinger before the Red Death, though I don't know what a hash-slinger is.
Page 8 2010
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She was the only wife I could find, even if she was a hash-slinger, as your father calls it.
Page 8 2010
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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
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Tracy is a cop patrolling the docks who falls for a real hash-slinger, Joan Bennett, who works at her family's restaurant.
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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
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And after a year of that she became waitress in a cheap restaurant -- hash-slinger, she called it.
The Night Born 1913
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She was the only wife I could find, even if she was a hash-slinger, as your father calls it.
The Scarlet Plague 1912
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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
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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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