hash

name

1. A surname.

noun

Etymology: Clipping of hashish.

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

verb

Etymology: From French hacher (“to chop”), from Middle French hacher, from Old French hacher, from Old French hache (“axe”), from Frankish *happjā (“axe”). Compare also Old English ġehæċċa (“sausage meat”, literally “that which is hacked or chopped up”).

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

   “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.”

   “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[.]”

2. To make a quick, rough version.

   “We need to quickly hash up some plans.”

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

3. To 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.”

4. To 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."”