Hash (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

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.
  5. electrical noise on an analog radio or, appearing as snow, in an analog television picture, caused by interfering outside sources that generate sparking.
verb (used with object)
  1. to chop into small pieces; make into hash; mince.
  2. to muddle or mess up: We thought we knew our parts, but when the play began we hashed the whole thing.
  3. to discuss or review (something) thoroughly (often followed by out): They hashed out every aspect of the issue.
Verb Phrases
  1. to bring up again for consideration; discuss, especially in review: At the class reunion they hashed over their college days.
Idioms
  1. to spoil or botch: The new writer made a hash of his first assignment.
  2. to stop, silence, or subdue: If she keeps badmouthing me, I'm going to have to settle her hash.
noun Slang.
  1. hashish.
noun
  1. a dish of diced cooked meat, vegetables, etc, reheated in a sauce
  2. something mixed up
  3. a reuse or rework of old material
  4. make a hash of informal
    • to mix or mess up
    • to defeat or destroy
  5. to subdue or silence someone
verb (tr)
  1. to chop into small pieces
  2. to mix or mess up
noun
  1. slang short for hashish
noun
  1. the character (#) used to precede a number
  2. this sign used in printing or writing to indicate that a space should be inserted
Hash (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

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