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hash

/ˈhæʃ/

hash noun: food, especially meat and potatoes, chopped and mixed together. Also the ellipsis of hash noise.

hash: food, especially meat and potatoes, chopped and mixed together
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Noun (1)

hash (plural hashes)

  1. Food, especially meat and potatoes, chopped and mixed together.
    • Near-synonym: scramble
    • I had for them, after oysters, at first course, a hash of rabbits, a lamb, and a rare chine of beef.1633, Samuel Pepys, Diary
    Synonyms:
    scramble
  2. A confused mess.
    • 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.1847, Charlotte Yonge, Scenes and Characters
  3. The # symbol (octothorpe, pound).
    • 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.1981 September 15, David C. A. Connolly, Harry Shutt, U.S. Patent 4289930, Electronic aparatus for the display of information received over a line
    Synonyms:
    crunch, hash mark /hashmark, hash sign, hashtag, number sign, octothorpe /octothorn, pound, pound sign, square
  4. The result generated by a hash function.
    Synonyms:
    checksum
  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.
    • 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.
    • Most hashes are planned as family affairs, with a shorter "puppy" trail laid for the children.1987, Susan Scott-Stevens, Foreign Consultants and Counterparts, page 81
  8. (Scotland) A stupid fellow.

Verb

hash (third-person singular simple present hashes, present participle hashing, simple past and past participle hashed)

  1. (transitive) To chop into small pieces, to make into a hash.
    • 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...1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
    • 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[.]1942 July 1, The Newcastle and Maitland Catholic Sentinel, Newcastle, NSW, page 224, column 2
  2. To make a quick, rough version.
    • 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.1949, Prevent World War III., number 30, page 12
  3. (transitive) To transform according to a hash function.
    • 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.2023 November 26, Eden Aldema Tshuva, Elette Boyle, Ran Cohen, Tal Moran, Rotem Oshman, “Locally Verifiable Distributed SNARGs”, in Guy Rothblum, Hoeteck Wee, editors, Theory of Cryptography 21st...
  4. (colloquial, transitive) To make a mess of (something); to ruin.
    • [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."1966, Rex Stout, Death of a Doxy

Noun (2)

hash (uncountable)

  1. (slang) Hashish, a drug derived from the cannabis plant.

Proper noun capitalized: Hash

Hash (plural Hashes)

  1. A surname.

Also used as

hash is also the ellipsis of hash noise.

hash meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu

hash in Hindi

the # symbol
संख्या चिह्न sankhyā chihn

hash in Tamil

ஹாஷ், ஹாஷ் செய்ய, ஹேஷ் செய்ய

hash in Marathi

हॅश, हैश, हॅश करण्यासाठी

hash in Urdu

ہیش, ہاش, ہیش کرنا
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hash in Bengali
হ্যাশ, হাশ, হ্যাশ করতে
hash in Telugu
హాష్, హ్యాష్, హాష్ చేయడానికి
hash in Malayalam
ഹാഷ്, ഹാഷ് ചെയ്യാൻ, ഹാഷിലേക്ക്
hash in Kannada
ಹ್ಯಾಶ್, ಹ್ಯಾಷ್, ಹಾಶ್
hash in Punjabi
ਹੈਸ਼, ਹੈਸ਼ ਕਰਨ ਲਈ, ਹੈਸ਼ ਕਰਨਾ
hash in Gujarati
હેશ, હૅશ, હશ
hash in Odia
ହଶ୍, ହ୍ଯ଼ାଶ୍, ହାଶ୍
hash in Nepali
ह्यास, ह्याश, ह्याश गर्न
hash in Arabic
شُبَّاك šubbāk, حَشِيش ḥašīš
hash in Indonesian
tanda pagar
hash in Persian
مربع morabba', هش haš
hash in Thai
ความยุ่งเหยิง kwaam-yûng-yə̌əng, แฮช hɛ́ch, สี่เหลี่ยม sìi-lìiam, สับ sàp
hash in Vietnamese
thịt băm, thịt bằm, băm, mớ lộn xộn

Examples of hash in a sentence

  • They stayed up late hashing out the details of the contract.
  • I generally make a hash of talking to boys I like; it's so frustrating.
  • Pouring drinks is one thing I always make a hash of, so please help yourselves.

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Synonyms of hash

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Forms of hash

Noun
pluralhashes
Verb
third-person singular presenthashes
present participlehashing
past participlehashed
pasthashed
Proper noun
pluralHashes

Plural of hash: hashes

Origin of hash

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”).

Clipping of hashish.

Words formed from hash

Phrases with hash

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Questions about hash

What does hash mean?
Hash means food, especially meat and potatoes, chopped and mixed together.
What is hash in Hindi?
Hash in Hindi is संख्या चिह्न (sankhyā chihn). See Hash meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is hash?
Hash can be a noun, a verb or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce hash?
Hash is pronounced /ˈhæʃ/.
What is the plural of hash?
The plural of hash is hashes.

Words near hash in the dictionary

  1. Haseltons
  2. hasenpfeffer
  3. hasenpfeffers
  4. hases
  5. Hasford
  6. hash
  7. hash algorithm
  8. hash algorithms
  9. hash brown
  10. hash brownie
  11. hash brownies

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: hash (page history and authors); Hash (page history and authors); hash (Tamil, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); hash (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); hash (Urdu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); hash (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); hash (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); hash (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); hash (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); hash (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); hash (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); hash (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); hash (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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