HASH

n. & v. --n. 1 a dish of cooked meat cut into small pieces and recooked. 2 a a mixture; a jumble. b a mess. 3 re-used or recycled material. --v.tr. (often foll. by up) 1 make (meat etc.) into a hash. 2 recycle (old material). ømake a hash of colloq. make a mess of; bungle. settle a person's hash colloq. deal with and subdue a person. [F hacher f. hache HATCHET]