n. & v.
—n.
1 a dish of cooked meat cut into small pieces and recooked.
2 a a mixture; a jumble. b a mess.
3 re-used or recycled material.
—v.tr. (often foll. by up)
1 make (meat etc.) into a hash.
2 recycle (old material).
Phrases and idioms:
make a hash of colloq. make a mess of; bungle. settle a person's hash colloq. deal with and subdue a person.
Etymology: F hacher f. hache HATCHET
2.
n. colloq. hashish.
Etymology: abbr.
Useful english dictionary. 2012.