See Also: hash(1)(dictionary)
hash(2)(dictionary)
hash(dictionary)
Steak Hash(recipes)
hash browns(dictionary)
hash 2, verb(dictionary)
hash 1, noun(dictionary)
Black pudding hash(recipes)
Corned Beef Hash(recipes)
Heavenly Hash Brownies(recipes)

hash(1) (iou)



hash noun1. M17.
[from the verb, replacing earlier HACHY.]
Something cut up into small pieces; spec. a dish of chopped (esp. previously cooked) meat heated with gravy, potatoes, etc.; fig. old matter served up in a new form (now chiefly passing into sense 3). M17.
A stupid person, one who is careless or muddled in speech or action. Scot. M17.
A (spoiled) mixture of jumbled incongruous things; a mess, a muddle. Freq. in make a hash of below. M18.
Noise in a received signal due to imperfect equipment; gen. radio noise. M20.
Computing. An act or the action of hashing. M20.
In full hash sign. The symbol #, esp. used before a numeral that is a number in a series. L20.
Phrases: make a hash of spoil in attempting to deal with, make a mess of. settle a person's hash colloq. silence or subdue a person.
Comb.: hash browns (chiefly N. Amer.) a dish made of chopped cooked potatoes and onions (sometimes shaped into a patty), fried until brown; hash-house colloq. (chiefly N. Amer.) a cheap eating-house; hash sign: see sense 6 above.
hashy adjective of the nature of a hash; muddled, careless: L19.