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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.

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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; see hatchet.]

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hash ²  (hsh)

n. Slang

Hashish.

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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]

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hash ²

Noun

Slang short for hashish

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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.

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	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 haschisch, hasheesh, hashish 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
Verb	1.	hash - chop up; "hash the potatoes" chop, chop up - cut into pieces; "Chop wood"; "chop meat"

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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

hash [hæʃ] n (CULIN) → picadillo;

(fig) (= mess); lío

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

n abbr (inf) = hashish

hash [hæʃ] n (Culin) → Haschee nt (fig);

to make a hash of sth → etw verpfuschen (inf);

(inf) n abbr (= hashish) → Hasch nt

hash [hæʃ] n (CULIN) → specie di spezzatino fatto con carne già cotta;

(fig) (= mess); pasticcio

n abbr (col) = hashish