hash Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun chopped meat mixed with potatoes and browned
  2. noun purified resinous extract of the hemp plant; used as a hallucinogen
    hasheesh; haschisch; hashish.
  3. verb chop up
    • hash the potatoes

WordNet

Hash noun
Etymology
Formerly hachey, hachee, F. hachis, . hacher to hash; of German origin; cf. G. hippe sickle, OHG. hippa, for happia. Cf. Hatchet.
Definitions
  1. That which is hashed or chopped up; meat and vegetables, especially such as have been already cooked, chopped into small pieces and mixed.
  2. A new mixture of old matter; a second preparation or exhibition.
    I can not bear elections, and still less the hash of them over again in a first session. Walpole.
Hash transitive verb
Etymology
From Hash, n.: cf. F. hacher to hash.
Wordforms
imperfect & past participle Hashed ; present participle & verbal noun Hashing
Definitions
  1. To hop into small pieces; to mince and mix; as, to hash meat. Hudibras.

Webster 1913