Hash Definition
hăsh
hashed, hashes, hashing
noun
hashes
A chopped mixture of cooked meat and vegetables, usually baked or browned.
Webster's New World
A mixture, as of things used before in different forms; rehash.
Webster's New World
A hodgepodge; muddle; mess.
Webster's New World
A mess.
Made a hash of the project.
American Heritage
A reworking or restatement of already familiar material.
American Heritage
verb
hashed, hashes, hashing
To chop (meat or vegetables) into small pieces for cooking.
Webster's New World
To make a mess of; botch; bungle.
Webster's New World
To discuss carefully; review.
Hash over future plans; hash out a solution.
American Heritage
(computing) To transform according to a hash function.
Wiktionary
Synonyms:
- rap
- thresh out
- thrash out
- knock about
- kick around
- toss around
- talk over
- moot
- discuss
- Also used with over: bandy
adjective
Hashed, chopped into small pieces.
Wiktionary
idiom
hash out
- to settle or resolve by prolonged discussion
Webster's New World
hash over
- to talk over in detail; discuss at length
Webster's New World
make (a) hash of
- to bungle; botch
- to destroy or defeat (an opponent, argument, etc.)
Webster's New World
settle someone's hash
- to deal with decisively, as in getting revenge
Webster's New World
Other Word Forms of Hash
Noun
Singular:
hash
Plural:
hashesIdioms, Phrasal Verbs Related to Hash
Origin of Hash
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Variant of Middle English hache from Old French past participle of hacher, hachier to chop up from hache ax of Germanic origin hatchet
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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From French hacher (“to chop”), from Old French hache (“axe”).
From Wiktionary
Probably alteration (influenced by hash) of hatch
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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Clipped form of hashish.
From Wiktionary
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