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1  [hash]
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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 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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hash

2  [hash]
–noun Slang.
hashish.
Origin:
by shortening
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hash 1   (hāsh)   
n.  

  1. 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.

  3. A reworking or restatement of already familiar material.

tr.v.   hashed, hash·ing, hash·es

  1. To chop into pieces; mince.

  2. Informal To make a mess of; mangle.

  3. 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.]
hash 2   (hāsh)   
n.   Slang
Hashish.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
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Slang Dictionary
hash [hæʃ]

  1. n.
    hashish; cannabis in general. (Drugs.) : The amount of hash that moves into this city in a single day would astound you.
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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Word Origin & History

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.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Medical Dictionary

Main Entry: hash
Pronunciation: 'hash
Function: noun
: HASHISH
Merriam-Webster's Medical Dictionary, © 2002 Merriam-Webster, Inc.
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Medical Dictionary

hash (hāsh)
n.
Hashish.

The American Heritage® Stedman's Medical Dictionary
Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company.
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Computing Dictionary

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

The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing, © 1993-2007 Denis Howe
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Idioms & Phrases

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. Published by Houghton Mifflin.
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