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hash-slinger

hash-slinger is the alternative form of hash slinger.

Meaning of hash slinger

Noun

hash slinger (plural hash slingers)

  1. (US, idiomatic) A cook or food server in a cheap restaurant, especially one who is discourteous or inattentive to customers.
    • At first the spread was not very elaborate. . . . Originally it consisted of a chunk of well greased sole leather served hot, two boiled potatoes, a cup of muddy coffee, a bold of bread, a grunt or growl from the hash slinger, and, in warm weather, a few flies.1904 April 8, “The Evolution and Passing of the Popular Fifteen Cent Lunch”, in Weekly News-Review, Indiana, USA, retrieved 05 Dec 2010, page 1

Forms of hash-slinger

pluralhash-slingers

Questions about hash-slinger

What is hash-slinger the alternative form of?
Hash-slinger is the alternative form of hash slinger.

Words near hash-slinger in the dictionary

  1. hash trees
  2. hash up
  3. hash-brown
  4. hash-browns
  5. hash-heesh
  6. hash-slinger
  7. hash-slingers
  8. hash-trap
  9. hash-traps
  10. hashab
  11. hashab gum

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