hash

UK: /ˈhæʃ/ US: /hæʃ/ ,(hash)

WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2026

hash¹ /hæʃ/   n. 

1. Food cooked meat and potatoes cut in small pieces and browned together:
   [uncountable] We're having hash for dinner.
   [countable] She makes a delicious hash.
2. a mess;
   jumble:
   [countable* usually singular] made a hash of his first job.

v. 

3. [~ + object] to make a mess or jumble of (things).
4. hash out or over, [ ~ + out/over + obj] to discuss or review (something) thoroughly:
   They hashed out their differences.

hash² /hæʃ/   n. [uncountable] [Slang.]

1. Drugs, Slang Terms hashish.

WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2026

hash¹  (hash), n. 

1. Food 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. Computing garbage (def. 7).
5. Radio and Television electrical noise on a radio or snow in a television picture caused by interfering outside sources that generate sparking.
6. Idioms make a hash of, to spoil or botch:
   The new writer made a hash of his first assignment.
7. Idioms, Informal Terms 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.

• French hacher to cut up, derivative of hache ax, hatchet
• 1645–55

Synonyms

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

hash²  (hash), n. [Slang.]

1. Drugs, Slang Terms hashish.

• by shortening

Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers::

hash / hæʃ/ noun

1. a dish of diced cooked meat, vegetables, etc, reheated in a sauce
2. a reuse or rework of old material
3. make a hash of ⇒ to mix or mess up
4. to defeat or destroy
5. settle someone's hash, fix someone's hash ⇒ to subdue or silence someone

verb (transitive)

1. to chop into small pieces
2. to mix or mess up

Etymology: 17th Century: from Old French hacher to chop up, from hache hatchet

hash / hæʃ/ noun

1. 
   short for hashish

hash / hæʃ/, hashmark / ˈhæʃˌmɑːk/ noun

1. the character (#) used to precede a number