hash

nounmess, mix-up

Synonyms for hash

noun mess, mix-up

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Word Origin & History

1650s, "to hack, chop into small pieces," from French hacher "chop up," from Old French hache "ax" (see hatchet). Hash browns is short for hash browned potatoes (1917), with the -ed omitted, as in mash potatoes. The hash marks on a football field were so called 1960s, from similarity to hash marks, armed forces slang for "service stripes on the sleeve of a military uniform" (1909), which supposedly were called that because they mark the number of years one has had free food (hash (n.1)) from the Army; but perhaps there is a connection with the noun form of hatch (v.2).

Example Sentences for hash

There is no definition for this word—nobody knows what hash is.

As for poor Talien, who was playing Don Guritan, he made a hash of it every minute.

Rub it through a sieve, return it to the stewpan, put in the hash, and let it stand by the side of the fire till the meat is warm.

He had supper with the boys, and his food was hash and tea and dry bread.

The landlady admitted that a souffle was something not unlike a hash.

It looks like a plate of hash and that's the way it's pronounced.

Boarder—(musingly)—But what do you do with the hash that's left over?

Excuse me for a half hour while I settle your friend's hash.

It is neither Dutch nor English nor German but is like hash, a little of this and a little of that.

First, you've made a hash of this cruise—you'll be a bold man to say no to that.

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