hashhouse

plural hashhouses

1. UScolloquialA cheap diner or eating-house.

   In the big town, no job, has to deal 'em off the arm in hashhouse again, sad.

   1946, Milton “Mezz” Mezzrow, Bernard Wolfe, “Tea Don’t Do You that Way”, in Really the Blues, New York, N.Y.: Random House, book 2 (1923–1928: Chicago, Chicago), page 88

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   ‘We went out about three-thirty or so to get something to eat at the hashhouse around the corner,’ Hench said.

   1943, Raymond Chandler, The High Window, Penguin, published 2005, page 86