hash-slinger

He had to try to better it by marrying the Swede hash-slinger from Los Angeles.

It was inconceivable that Birdie––or, as he mentally apostrophized her, “this blamed hash-slinger”––should so flout him.

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

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

Then Denver's some in the turtle-dove business, according to that hash-slinger in Cheyenne.