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hash.

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

4 characters1 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

noun/ˈhæʃ/[ˈhæʃ]
  1. Food, especially meat and potatoes, chopped and mixed together.

  2. A confused mess.

  3. The # symbol (octothorpe, pound).

  4. The result generated by a hash function.

  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.

  7. A hash run.

  8. A stupid fellow.

    Scotland
Where this word comes from

From French hacher (“to chop”), from Middle French hacher, from Old French hacher, from Old French hache (“axe”), from Frankish *happjā (“axe”). Compare also Old English ġehæċċa (“sausage meat”, literally “that which is hacked or chopped up”).

verb/ˈhæʃ/[ˈhæʃ]
  1. To chop into small pieces, to make into a hash.

    transitive
  2. To make a quick, rough version.

    We need to quickly hash up some plans.
  3. To transform according to a hash function.

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

    colloquial · transitive
  5. Ellipsis of hash noise.

    abbreviation · alt-of · ellipsis
Where this word comes from

From French hacher (“to chop”), from Middle French hacher, from Old French hacher, from Old French hache (“axe”), from Frankish *happjā (“axe”). Compare also Old English ġehæċċa (“sausage meat”, literally “that which is hacked or chopped up”).

noun/ˈhæʃ/[ˈhæʃ]
  1. Hashish, a drug derived from the cannabis plant.

    slang · uncountable
Where this word comes from

Clipping of hashish.

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