hash

plural hashes

1. Food, especially meat and potatoes, chopped and mixed together.

   Near-synonym: scramble

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   I had for them, after oysters, at first course, a hash of rabbits, a lamb, and a rare chine of beef.

   1633, Samuel Pepys, Diary

   Synonyms: scramble

2. A confused mess.

   Oh! no, not Naylor's--the girls have made a hash there, as they do everything else; but we will settle her before they come out again.

   1847, Charlotte Yonge, Scenes and Characters

3. mediaThe # symbol (octothorpe, pound).

   The keyboard 10 has four named keys (not shown) marked “VIEWDATA”, “PROGRAM”, “PAGE TRANSMIT”, and “CLEAR” and two further keys (marked respectively with an asterisk and a hash symbol) in addition to the numeric keys previously mentioned.

   1981 September 15, David C. A. Connolly, Harry Shutt, U.S. Patent 4289930, Electronic aparatus for the display of information received over a line

   Synonyms: crunch, hash mark /hashmark, hash sign, hashtag, number sign, octothorpe /octothorn, pound, pound sign

4. computingThe result generated by a hash function.

   Synonyms: checksum

5. businessOne 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.

   October 28, 1752, Horace Walpole, letter to Sir Horace Mann I cannot bear elections, and still less the hash of them over again in a first session.

7. A hash run.

   Most hashes are planned as family affairs, with a shorter "puppy" trail laid for the children.

   1987, Susan Scott-Stevens, Foreign Consultants and Counterparts, page 81

8. ScotlandA stupid fellow.

present singular third person hashes · participle present hashing · participle past hashed · past hashed

1. transitiveTo chop into small pieces, to make into a hash.

   I never did care for Sunday joint that was served up cold on Monday, hashed on Tuesday, rissoled on Wednesday, and re-hashed on Thursday[.]

   1942 July 1, The Newcastle and Maitland Catholic Sentinel, Newcastle, NSW, page 224, column 2

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   In like manner, we shall represent human nature at first to the keen appetite of our reader, in that more plain and simple manner in which it is found in the country, and shall hereafter hash and ragoo it with all the high French and Italian seasoning of affectation and vice which courts and cities afford.

   1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling

2. To make a quick, rough version.

   We need to quickly hash up some plans.

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   Buchman’s device is to hash together successfully the “good” words—democracy, peace, morality and God—packaging them in a few cliches.

   1949, Prevent World War III., number 30, page 12

   Another partial throwback during this period was Franc Roddam’s The Bride (1984), which manages to hash together undigested echoes of Universal as well as Hammer in the manner of the more lethargic kind of pop promo.

   2004, Jonathan Rigby, English Gothic: A Century of Horror Cinema, Reynolds & Hearn, →ISBN, page 279

3. transitivecomputingTo transform according to a hash function.

   Recall that our goal with the distributed Merkle tree (DMT) is to hash together all the messages sent during the execution of the distributed algorithm, in such a way that a node can produce openings for its own sent messages.

   2023 November 26, Eden Aldema Tshuva, Elette Boyle, Ran Cohen, Tal Moran, Rotem Oshman, “Locally Verifiable Distributed SNARGs”, in Guy Rothblum, Hoeteck Wee, editors, Theory of Cryptography 21st International Conference, TCC 2023, Taipei, Taiwan, November 29 – December 2, 2023, Proceedings, Part I · Part 1, Springer Nature Switzerland, →ISBN, page 85

4. colloquialtransitiveTo make a mess of (something); to ruin.

   [Julie Jacquette]: "All right, you've hashed it. I knew damn well you should have stayed in the other room. Now he knows he'll have to kill you too."

   1966, Rex Stout, Death of a Doxy

5. abbreviationellipsiscommunicationsEllipsis of hash noise.

1. slanguncountableHashish, a drug derived from the cannabis plant.

plural Hashes

1. A surname.