- [uncountable, countable] a hot dish of cooked meat and potatoes that are cut into small pieces and mixed together
- corned beef hash
- [uncountable] (informal) hashish (= a drug made from the resin of the hemp plant, which gives a feeling of being relaxed when it is smoked or put in the mouth and chewed. Use of the drug is illegal in many countries.)
- (also hash sign)(both British English)(North American English pound sign)(also hashtag British and North American English)[countable] the symbol ( # ), especially one on a phone or computer keyboard
- Press the hash key.
Word Originnoun sense 1 and make a hash of something. late 16th cent. (as a verb): from French hacher, from hache ‘axe’, from medieval Latin hapia, of Germanic origin. noun sense 3 1980s: probably from hatch ‘shade an area with parallel lines’, altered by folk etymology.
Idioms
See hash in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionarymake a hash of something
- (informal) to do something badly
- I made a real hash of the interview.
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