hash 1  (hāsh) 
n. A dish of chopped meat, potatoes, and sometimes vegetables, usually browned. A jumble; a hodgepodge. 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.] |
