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hash house

noun Slang.

an inexpensive restaurant, diner, or the like, that serves a limited number of short-order dishes: We stopped for lunch at a roadside hash house.

Origin:
1865–70, Americanism

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hash house

—n
	slang (US) a cheap café or restaurant

Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 10th Edition
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hash-house definition

n.
a cheap diner. (Where hash might be on the menu.) : Tom worked for two days as a hash-slinger in a hash-house.
n.
a place where hashish is sold and used. (Drugs.) : This hash-house is due for a raid. Let's hit it.

Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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