hash browns

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hash′ browns′, 

1. Food crisp-fried potatoes made by dicing, chopping, or mashing boiled potatoes and browning them in hot fat or oil.

Also, hash′-browns′, hash′•browns′. Also called hash′-browned pota′toes, hash′-brown pota′toes. 

• 1950–55

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hash browns noun:plural

1. diced boiled potatoes mixed with chopped onion, shaped and fried until brown