Hash

Pronunciation

• enPR: hăsh, IPA: /ˈhæʃ/
• Rhymes: -æʃ

From French hacher ("to chop"), from Old French hache ("axe").

Full definition of hash

Noun

1. Food, especially meat and potatoes, chopped and mixed together.
• 1633, Samuel Pepys, DiaryI had for them, after oysters, at first course, a hash of rabbits, a lamb, and a rare chine of beef.
2. A confused mess.
• 1847, Charlotte Yonge, Scenes and CharactersOh! 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.
3. The symbol (octothorpe, pound).
4. (computing) The result generated by a hash function.
5. A new mixture of old material; a second preparation or exhibition; a rehashing.
• WalpoleI cannot bear elections, and still less the hash of them over again in a first session.

Synonyms

• (result generated by hash function) checksum

Derived terms

Adjective

1. Hashed, chopped into small pieces
• 1855, William Makepeace Thackeray, The NewcomesThe Colonel, himself, was great at making hash mutton, hot-pot, curry, and pillau.

Derived terms

Verb

1. (transitive) To chop into small pieces, to make into a hash.
• 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a FoundlingIn 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 afford.
2. To make a quick, rough versionWe need to quickly hash up some plans.
3. (computing, transitive) To transform according to a hash function.

Derived terms

• hash out
• rehash

Clipped form of hashish.

Noun

1. Hashish, a drug derived from the cannabis plant.

Anagrams

• ahhs, Shah, shah