Hash is a dish made from meat cut into small lumps and fried with other ingredients such as onions or potato.
...corned beef hash.
3. countable noun [usually singular]
A hash is the sign '#', found on phone keypads and computer keyboards.
[mainly British, spoken]
4. uncountable noun
Hash is hashish.
[informal]
hash in British English1
(hæʃ)
noun
1.
a dish of diced cooked meat, vegetables, etc, reheated in a sauce
2.
something mixed up
3.
a reuse or rework of old material
4. make a hash of
5. settle someone's hash
verb(transitive)
6.
to chop into small pieces
7.
to mix or mess up
Word origin
C17: from Old French hacher to chop up, from hachehatchet
hash in British English2
(hæʃ)
noun
slang short for hashish
hash in British English3
(hæʃ) or hashmark (ˈhæʃˌmɑːk)
noun
1.
the character (#) used to precede a number
2.
this sign used in printing or writing to indicate that a space should be inserted
hash in American English1
(hæʃ)
verb transitive
1.
to chop (meat or vegetables) into small pieces for cooking
2. Informal
to make a mess or botch of; bungle
noun
3.
a chopped mixture of cooked meat and vegetables, usually baked or browned
4.
a mixture, as of things used before in different forms; rehash
5.
a hodgepodge; muddle; mess
Idioms:
hash out
hash over
make (a) hash of
settle someone's hash
Word origin
Fr hacher, to chop, mince: see hachure
hash in American English2
(hæʃ)
noun
Slang
hashish
Examples of 'hash' in a sentence
hash
Both make a hash of it and the clients are not impressed.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
He seems to have made a real hash of things over the past few months.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
My beef hash with poached egg was cloying, stuck together far more than it should be.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
I made a complete hash of it.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
For lunch I had sweet potato hash with kale and eggs.
Christianity Today (2000)
And the most amazing thing is that victory is not beyond England despite their best efforts so far to make a total hash of it.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
First, it made a total hash of regulation in the run-up to the financial crisis.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
But I'm afraid he made a complete hash of it.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
All related terms of 'hash'
hash key
the # key on a keyboard or keypad
hash mark
→ service stripe
hash out
to settle or resolve by prolonged discussion
hash over
to talk over in detail; discuss at length
hash browns
Hash browns or hashed browns are potatoes that have been chopped into small pieces , formed into small cakes , and cooked on a grill or in a frying pan .
hash house
a cheap café or restaurant
hash brownies
diced boiled potatoes mixed with chopped onion , shaped and fried until brown
hash cookies
biscuits containing cannabis
corned beef hash
a dish consisting of corned beef chopped and mixed together with mashed potatoes and various other ingredients , then fried
hash house slinger
a person who serves in a cheap cafe
make a hash of
If you make a hash of a job or task , you do it very badly .
red-flannel hash
hash made of ground corned beef, potatoes , and beets
octothorp
a symbol that is used in printing , in mathematics and, commonly , on a telephone keypad ; it consists of two horizontal lines, one above the other, with two diagonal lines, one beside the other, through them