hash
- to chop (meat or vegetables) into small pieces for cooking
- Informal to make a mess of; botch; bungle
Origin of hash
French hacher, to chop, mince: see hachure- a chopped mixture of cooked meat and vegetables, usually baked or browned
- a mixture, as of things used before in different forms; rehash
- a hodgepodge; muddle; mess
hash Idioms
hash out
Informal to settle or resolve by prolonged discussion
hash over
Informal to talk over in detail; discuss at length
make (a) hash of
Informal- to bungle; botch
- to destroy or defeat (an opponent, argument, etc.)
settle someone's hash
Slang to deal with decisively, as in getting revenge
Slang hashish
Chiefly Brit. the symbol (#); pound sign
also hash sign
Origin of hash
probably from hatchhash
noun
- A dish of chopped meat, potatoes, and sometimes vegetables, usually browned.
- a. A jumble; a hodgepodge.b. Informal A mess: made a hash of the project.
- A reworking or restatement of already familiar material.
transitive verb
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.
Origin of hash
Variant of Middle English hache from Old French past participle of hacher, hachier to chop up from hache axe of Germanic origin ; see hatchet .noun
SlangHashish.
noun
Chiefly BritishThe symbol (#); the pound sign.
Origin of hash
Probably alteration (influenced by hash 1)of hatch 3hash
Noun
(plural hashes)
Verb
(third-person singular simple present hashes, present participle hashing, simple past and past participle hashed)
Origin
From French hacher (“to chop”), from Old French hache (“axe”).
Origin
Clipped form of hashish.
hash - Computer Definition
See #.
(1) The number sign (#). See hashtag and number sign.
(2) See hash value and hash total.
