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hash slinger
A cook or a waitress, especially at a diner or cheap restaurant. ("Hash," in this sense, refers to a dish or stew of chopped meat and vegetables, not hashish.) Primarily heard in US. I worked as a hash slinger for several years to pay my way through college.
hash (something) over (with someone)
Fig. to discuss something with someone. I need to hash this matter over with you. I've hashed over this business enough.
hash something up
1. to chop something up. Now, hash the onion and garlic up and put it in the skillet. Now, hash up the beef and brown it.
2. to mess something up. Somebody hashed my manuscript up! Somebody hashed up my manuscript!
settle someone's hash
Sl. to calm someone down, perhaps by threats or by violence. If he comes in here, I'll settle his hash. Now, that ought to settle your hash.
hash out something
also hash something out to talk about something in order to reach agreement about it The talks continued on Sunday, with the two sides trying to hash out the details of an agreement.
hash over
Also, hash out. Discuss carefully, review, as in Let's hash over these plans again, or The department was hashing out the new syllabus. This idiom uses the verb hash in the sense of "cut into small pieces," a usage dating from the mid-1700s.
make a hash of
Also, make a mess of. Ruin or spoil something, as in They've made a hash of their financial affairs, or She thought he'd make a mess of the garden. The first term, first recorded in 1833, uses hash in the sense of "a jumble of mangled fragments"; the variant, using mess in the sense of "a muddle" or "a state of confusion," was first recorded in 1862.
settle someone's hash
Subdue or get rid of someone, deal with a troublemaker, as in If John starts another argument we know just how to settle his hash. This term, dating from about 1800, uses hash in the sense of "a mess."
sling hash
Serve food in a restaurant, especially a cheap establishment. For example, The only job she could find was slinging hash in the neighborhood diner. This term alludes to the inelegant presentation and nature of the food, in effect, tossing hash before a customer. [Slang; mid-1800s]
flash the hash
tv. to empty one’s stomach; to vomit. Dave left quickly to go out and flash the hash, I think.
hash
(hæʃ) n. hashish; cannabis in general. (Drugs.) The amount of hash that moves into this city in a single day would astound you.
hash cannon
n. a device used in the smoking of cannabis. (see also
shotgun.)
Don had a hash cannon in his office as a sample of a device for smoking pot. hash pipe
n. a small pipe for smoking cannabis. (Drugs.) John kept a hash pipe on the shelf just for show.
hash-head
n. a smoker of cannabis. (Drugs.) You can’t stay a hash-head all your life.
hash-house
1. n. a cheap diner. (Where hash might be on the menu.) Tom worked for two days as a hash-slinger in a hash-house.
2. n. a place where hashish is sold and used. (Drugs.) This hash-house is due for a raid. Let’s hit it.
hash-slinger
n. a cook, waiter, or waitress in a hash-house. I worked as a hash-slinger in an all-night diner.
heavy hash
n. potent cannabis. (Drugs.) This is heavy hash, and it will cost you.
settle someone’s hash
tv. to calm someone down, perhaps by threats or by violence. If he comes in here, I’ll settle his hash.
settle (someone's) hash
Slang To silence or subdue.