hash — English Dictionary

hash
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Pronunciations (2)
  • /ˈhæʃ/
  • [ˈhæʃ]

Noun

  1. Food, especially meat and potatoes, chopped and mixed together.

    Synonyms
    Examples

    Near-synonym: scramble

    I had for them, after oysters, at first course, a hash of rabbits, a lamb, and a rare chine of beef.

  2. A confused mess.

    Examples

    Oh! no, not Naylor's--the girls have made a hash there, as they do everything else; but we will settle her before they come out again.

  3. The # symbol (octothorpe, pound).

    Examples
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    The keyboard 10 has four named keys (not shown) marked “VIEWDATA”, “PROGRAM”, “PAGE TRANSMIT”, and “CLEAR” and two further keys (marked respectively with an asterisk and a hash symbol) in addition to the numeric keys previously mentioned.

  4. The result generated by a hash function.

    Synonyms
  5. One guess made by a mining computer in the effort of finding the correct answer which releases the next unit of cryptocurrency; see also hashrate.

  6. A new mixture of old material; a second preparation or exhibition; a rehashing.

    Examples

    October 28, 1752, Horace Walpole, letter to Sir Horace Mann I cannot bear elections, and still less the hash of them over again in a first session.

  7. A hash run.

    Examples

    Most hashes are planned as family affairs, with a shorter "puppy" trail laid for the children.

  8. A stupid fellow.

    Usage
    • Scotland

Verb

  1. To chop into small pieces, to make into a hash.

    Usage
    • Transitive
    Examples
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    In like manner, we shall represent human nature at first to the keen appetite of our reader, in that more plain and simple manner in which it is found in the country, and shall hereafter hash and ragoo it with all the high French and Italian seasoning of affectation and vice which courts and cities afford.

    I never did care for Sunday joint that was served up cold on Monday, hashed on Tuesday, rissoled on Wednesday, and re-hashed on Thursday[.]

  2. To make a quick, rough version.

    Examples

    We need to quickly hash up some plans.

    Buchman’s device is to hash together successfully the “good” words—democracy, peace, morality and God—packaging them in a few cliches.

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    Another partial throwback during this period was Franc Roddam’s The Bride (1984), which manages to hash together undigested echoes of Universal as well as Hammer in the manner of the more lethargic kind of pop promo.

  3. To transform according to a hash function.

    Usage
    • Transitive
    Examples
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    Recall that our goal with the distributed Merkle tree (DMT) is to hash together all the messages sent during the execution of the distributed algorithm, in such a way that a node can produce openings for its own sent messages.

  4. To make a mess of (something); to ruin.

    Usage
    • Colloquial
    • Transitive
    Examples

    [Julie Jacquette]: "All right, you've hashed it. I knew damn well you should have stayed in the other room. Now he knows he'll have to kill you too."

Noun

  1. Hashish, a drug derived from the cannabis plant.

    Usage
    • Slang
    • Uncountable

Noun

  1. chopped meat mixed with potatoes and browned

    Broader terms
  2. purified resinous extract of the hemp plant; used as a hallucinogen

    Broader terms

Verb

  1. chop up

    Broader terms
    Examples

    hash the potatoes

Word forms
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