HASH


Meaning of HASH in English

hash 1

/hash/ , n.

1. a dish of diced or chopped meat and often vegetables, as of leftover corned beef or veal and potatoes, sautéed in a frying pan or of meat, potatoes, and carrots cooked together in gravy.

2. a mess, jumble, or muddle: a hash of unorganized facts and figures.

3. a reworking of old and familiar material: This essay is a hash of several earlier and better works.

4. Computers. garbage (def. 7).

5. Radio and Television Slang. electrical noise on a radio or snow in a television picture caused by interfering outside sources that generate sparking.

6. make a hash of , to spoil or botch: The new writer made a hash of his first assignment.

7. settle someone's hash , Informal. to get rid of; subdue: Her blunt reply really settled my hash.

v.t.

8. to chop into small pieces; make into hash; mince.

9. to muddle or mess up: We thought we knew our parts, but when the play began we hashed the whole thing.

10. to discuss or review (something) thoroughly (often fol. by out ): They hashed out every aspect of the issue.

11. hash over , to bring up again for consideration; discuss, esp. in review: At the class reunion they hashed over their college days.

[ 1645-55; hacher to cut up, deriv. of hache ax, HATCHET ]

Syn. 6. bungle, butcher, muddle, mess up, flub. 11. review, recall, reminisce, recollect, remember.

hash 2

/hash/ , n. Slang.

hashish.

[ by shortening ]

Random House Webster's Unabridged English dictionary.      Полный английский словарь Вебстер - Random House .