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hash

hash

32 2.8
A dish of chopped meat and potatoes fried together
  • noun
  • /hæʃ/
translation icon : picadillo
  • In the spirit of trying new things, I eat corned-beef hash along with the eggs.
  • hash browns
  • eggs and hash
  • beef hash

Examples

  • Two eggs over easy with hash.

  • The chef prepared a tasty hash of beef and potatoes, perfectly browned in the skillet.

  • I got my sausage and egg and hash brown wrap.

  • French toast, steak, hash brown and egg.

  • For breakfast this morning, I've got beans, egg, hash brown, coffee, and some fruit.

  • I always get their hash Browns, they're so good.

  • I have been eating the most heavenly hash browns made by my best friend of three years.

    Blog text (19)
  • It comes with hash browns and toast.

  • Breakfast was hot coffee and lots of it, toast, eggs fried in butter, sausage, and hash-browns.

    Fiction book (2001)
  • "Inside, the smell of frying eggs, sausage, bacon, and hash browns filled the air.

    Fiction book (1999)

Synonyms

2 2.9

A fried mix of chopped corned beef, potatoes, and onions

is the general dish using any cooked chopped meat with potatoes and often onions

Idioms

To punish or defeat someone to stop their harmful actions

Compounds

A fried mix of chopped corned beef, potatoes, and onions

hash house
  • Archaic
1 7.2

A cheap casual restaurant that serves simple, large meals

hash slinger
  • Slang
9.4

A cook or server in a small diner

hash head
  • Offensive
9.9

A person who often smokes hash, a kind of illegal drug

hash mark
  • Jargon
6.8

A short stripe on a uniform that shows years of service

hash mark
  • Texting
2.8

The sign '#' used before words to make hashtags and on phone keypads

How Filling

roast
197 1.0
stew
110 1.0
hash
32 2.8
snack
471 1.0

Surface Forms

hash singular
hashes plural

Etymology

Hash for the food comes from the old French verb hacher meaning 'to chop', just like the English word 'chop'. A hash is meat and potatoes chopped small and mixed together.