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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 followed by out): They hashed out every aspect of the issue.
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Hash
is always a great word to know.
So is format. Does it mean:
| system software used to perform standard operations, such as sorting data for application programs or other system software |
| the arrangement of data for computer input or output, such as the number and size of fields in a record or the spacing and punctuation of information in a report |
9.
Idiomshash over, to bring up again for consideration; discuss, especially in review: At the class reunion they hashed over their college days.
10.
make a hash of, to spoil or botch: The new writer made a hash of his first assignment.
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Related forms
un·hashed, adjective
Synonyms
10. bungle, butcher, muddle, mess up, flub. 9. review, recall, reminisce, recollect, remember.
10. bungle, butcher, muddle, mess up, flub. 9. review, recall, reminisce, recollect, remember.
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World English Dictionary
| hash2 (hæʃ) | |
| —n | |
| slang short for hashish | |
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Word Origin & History
hash
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
EXPANDfield 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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American Heritage
Medical Dictionary
hash (hāsh)
n.
Hashish.
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Slang Dictionary
hash definition[hæʃ]
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Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
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Computing Dictionary
hash definition
1.
2.
3. The preferred term for a Perl associative array.
(1995-03-06)
American Heritage
Idioms & Phrases
hash
In addition to the idiom beginning with hash, also see make a hash of; settle someone's hash; sling hash.
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Copyright © 1997. Published by Houghton Mifflin.
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