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hash 1  (hsh)
n.
1. A dish of chopped meat, potatoes, and sometimes vegetables, usually browned.
2.
a. A jumble; a hodgepodge.
b. Informal A mess: made a hash of the project.
3. A reworking or restatement of already familiar material.
tr.v. hashed, hash·ing, hash·es
1. To chop into pieces; mince.
2. Informal To make a mess of; mangle.
3. Informal To discuss carefully; review: hash over future plans; hash out a solution.
Idiom:
settle (someone's) hash Slang
To silence or subdue.

[Variant of Middle English hache, from Old French, past participle of hacher, hachier, to chop up, from hache, ax, of Germanic origin; see hatchet.]

hash 1
Noun
1. a dish of diced cooked meat, vegetables, etc., reheated: corned-beef hash
2. a reworking of old material
3. make a hash of Informal to mess up or destroy [Old French hacher to chop up]

hash 2
Noun
Slang short for hashish

Hash a medley; a spoiled mixture; a meat dish.
Examples: hash of absurdity, 1795; of plain repetition, 1672; of tongues, 1735; of my own words, 1860.
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.hash - chopped meat mixed with potatoes and browned
dish - a particular item of prepared food; "she prepared a special dish for dinner"
corned beef hash - hash made with corned beef
2.hash - purified resinous extract of the hemp plant; used as a hallucinogen
soft drug - a drug of abuse that is considered relatively mild and not likely to cause addiction
Cannabis indica, Indian hemp - source of e.g. bhang and hashish as well as fiber
Verb1.hash - chop up; "hash the potatoes"
chop, chop up - cut into pieces; "Chop wood"; "chop meat"

hash
noun make a hash of (Informal) mess up, muddle, bungle, botch, cock up Brit. (slang) mishandle, mismanage, make a nonsense of (informal) bodge (informal) make a pig's ear of (informal) flub U.S. (slang)
Translations
Spanish hash [hæʃ] n (CULIN) → picadillo;
(fig) (= mess); lío

French hash [hæʃ] n (Culin) → hachis m (fig) (= mess); gâchis m
n abbr (inf) = hashish

German hash [hæʃ] n (Culin) → Haschee nt (fig);
to make a hash of sth → etw verpfuschen (inf);
(inf) n abbr (= hashish) → Hasch nt

Italian hash [hæʃ] n (CULIN) → specie di spezzatino fatto con carne già cotta;
(fig) (= mess); pasticcio
n abbr (col) = hashish

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