Hashhouse

Pronunciation

• UK IPA: /ˈhaʃhaÊŠs/

Origin

From hash + house.

Full definition of hashhouse

Noun

1. (US colloquial) A cheap diner or eating-house.
• 1943, Raymond Chandler, The High Window, Penguin 2005, p. 86:‘We went out about three-thirty or so to get something to eat at the hashhouse around the corner,’ Hench said.
• 1946, Mezz Mezzrow and Bernard Wolfe, Really the Blues, Payback Press 1999, p. 88:In the big town, no job, has to deal 'em off the arm in hashhouse again, sad.