👨‍🍳 A hash cook 🔪 A food chopper 💻 A hash creator

hasher

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A person who makes short computer codes to check data or runs in a social running club

noun
/ˈhæʃər/

Specialized

: hasher

Every Saturday, the local hasher group meets for a fun run and social gathering.

Examples

As a skilled hasher, she contributed to improving the software's data integrity.
The experienced hasher quickly generated secure hash values for the new database.
The hasher generated a unique code for the file.
Many hashers enjoy the camaraderie of their running group.
During the run, I met another hasher who shared stories about their favorite trails.
At the Hash House Harriers meeting, every hasher was excited to learn about the upcoming events.
As a dedicated hasher, she looked forward to each group's weekend running adventures.

Surface Forms

hasher singular

hashers plural

Morphology

hasher = hash (semi-transparent) = hash + er

The agentive formation is regular (hash + -er) and transparent for computing senses, but the use as a member of the Hash House Harriers (a club-derived label) is specialized and less obvious to general learners.

Etymology

Hasher comes from hash (from French hacher, 'to chop'), and the idea later grew to mean 'to mix up'. So a computing hasher 'mixes' information into a small code, and runners in the Hash House Harriers are called hashers after the cheap 'Hash House' meals they shared.