hash

Meaning

Noun

1. Food, especially meat and potatoes, chopped and mixed together.
2. A confused mess.
3. The # symbol (octothorpe, pound).
4. The result generated by a hash function.
5. One guess made by a mining computer in the effort of finding the correct answer which releases the next unit of cryptocurrency; see also hashrate.
6. A new mixture of old material; a second preparation or exhibition; a rehashing.
7. A hash run.
8. (Scotland) A stupid fellow.

Verb

1. (transitive) To chop into small pieces, to make into a hash.
2. To make a quick, rough version.
3. (transitive) To transform according to a hash function.
4. (colloquial, transitive) To make a mess of (something); to ruin.

Synonyms

chop

mince

carve

hashish

chop up

cut

medley

haschisch

slice

mash

cannabis

hasheesh

pound sign

mixture

break up

crumble

crush

slice up

grass

grid

grind

hack

hackle

hemp

hew

hodgepodge

hotpot

intermixture

mangle

marijuana

maul

melange

mess

mess up

minced meat

muck up

muddle

notch

number sign

patty

pie

🥧

salmagundi

saw

🪚

sever

sharp

shear

strip

hash house

louse up

mince-meat

Translations

hachis

#️⃣

picadillo

lío

croisillon

hekje

hacher

picadinho

bagunça

haschich

Hasch

hacken

Doppelkreuz

Faschiertes

Hash

dièse

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈhæʃ/

Etymology

From French hacher (“to chop”), from Middle French hacher, from Old French hacher, from Old French hache (“axe”), from Frankish *happjā (“axe”). Compare also Old English ġehæċċa (“sausage meat”, literally “that which is hacked or chopped up”).