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[hash] Pronunciation Key

–noun

1.	a dish of diced or chopped meat and often vegetables, as of leftover corned beef or veal and potatoes, sautéed in a frying pan or of meat, potatoes, and carrots cooked together in gravy.

2.	a mess, jumble, or muddle: a hash of unorganized facts and figures.

3.	a reworking of old and familiar material: This essay is a hash of several earlier and better works.

4.	Computers. garbage (def. 7).

5.	Radio and Television Slang. electrical noise on a radio or snow in a television picture caused by interfering outside sources that generate sparking.

–verb (used with object)

6.	to chop into small pieces; make into hash; mince.

7.	to muddle or mess up: We thought we knew our parts, but when the play began we hashed the whole thing.

8.	to discuss or review (something) thoroughly (often fol. by out): They hashed out every aspect of the issue.

—Verb phrase

9.	hash over, to bring up again for consideration; discuss, esp. in review: At the class reunion they hashed over their college days.

—Idioms

10.	make a hash of, to spoil or botch: The new writer made a hash of his first assignment.

11.	settle someone's hash, Informal. to get rid of; subdue: Her blunt reply really settled my hash.

[Origin: 1645–55; < F hacher to cut up, deriv. of hache ax, hatchet

]

—Synonyms 10. bungle, butcher, muddle, mess up, flub. 9. review, recall, reminisce, recollect, remember.

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hash2

[hash] Pronunciation Key

–noun Slang.

hashish.

[Origin: by shortening

]

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hash¹ (hāsh) Pronunciation Key
n.

A dish of chopped meat, potatoes, and sometimes vegetables, usually browned.
1. A jumble; a hodgepodge.
2. Informal A mess: made a hash of the project.
A reworking or restatement of already familiar material.

tr.v. hashed, hash·ing, hash·es

To chop into pieces; mince.
Informal To make a mess of; mangle.
Informal To discuss carefully; review: hash over future plans; hash out a solution.

[Variant of Middle English hache, from Old French, past participle of hacher, hachier, to chop up, from hache, ax, of Germanic origin; see hatchet.]

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hash² (hāsh) Pronunciation Key
n. Slang
Hashish.

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hash (v.)

1657, "to hack, chop," from Fr. hacher, from O.Fr. hache "axe." The noun "stew" is first recorded 1662, from the verb. Hash, short for hashish, is first recorded 1959 Amer.Eng. Hash browns, is short for hash browned potatoes (1917), with the -ed omitted, as in mash potatoes. The hash marks on a football field were so called 1960s, from similarity to hash marks, armed forces slang for "service stripes on the sleeve of a military uniform" (1909), supposedly called that because they mark the number of years one has had free food (hash) from the Army.

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hash
noun
1.	chopped meat mixed with potatoes and browned
2.	purified resinous extract of the hemp plant; used as a hallucinogen [syn: hashish]
verb
1.	chop up; "hash the potatoes"

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American Heritage Dictionary of Idioms - Cite This Source - Share This

hash

In addition to the idiom beginning with hash, also see make a hash of; settle someone's hash; sling hash.

The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
Copyright © 1997 by The Christine Ammer 1992 Trust. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company.

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hash (hāsh)
n.
Hashish.

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Free On-line Dictionary of Computing - Cite This Source - Share This

hash
1. hash character.
2. hash coding.
3. The preferred term for a Perl associative array.
(1995-03-06)

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Rabbit Hash, KY Zip code(s): 41005

U.S. Gazetteer, U.S. Census Bureau

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Hash

Hash\, n. [Formerly hachey, hachee, F. hachis, ?. hacher to hash; of German origin; cf. G. hippe sickle, OHG. hippa, for happia. Cf. Hatchet.]

1. That which is hashed or chopped up; meat and vegetables, especially such as have been already cooked, chopped into small pieces and mixed.

2. A new mixture of old matter; a second preparation or exhibition.

I can not bear elections, and still less the hash of them over again in a first session. --Walpole.

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Hash

Hash\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Hashed; p. pr. & vb. n. Hashing.] [From Hash, n.: cf. F. hacher to hash.] To ?hop into small pieces; to mince and mix; as, to hash meat. --Hudibras.

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