Hash \Hash\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Hashed (h[a^]sht); p. pr. &
   vb. n. Hashing.] [From Hash, n.: cf. F. hacher to hash.]
   To chop into small pieces; to mince and mix; as, to hash
   meat. --Hudibras. Hasheesh

	

	Hash \Hash\ (h[a^]sh), n. [Formerly hachey, hachee, F. hachis,
   fr. hacher to hash; of German origin; cf. G. hippe sickle,
   OHG. hippa, for happia. Cf. Hatchet.]
   1. That which is hashed or chopped up; meat and vegetables,
      especially such as have been already cooked, chopped into
      small pieces and mixed.
      [1913 Webster]

   2. A new mixture of old matter; a second preparation or
      exhibition.
      [1913 Webster]

            I can not bear elections, and still less the hash of
            them over again in a first session.   --Walpole.
      [1913 Webster]

   3. Hashish. [slang]
      [PJC]

	

	octothorp \oc"to*thorp\, octothorpe \oc"to*thorpe\, n. [octo-
   eight + thorp Etymology of thorp uncertain. (ca. 1965). See
   quote below. Possibly derived from octalthorpe or octotherp
   (once used by the Bell System?).]
   A typographic symbol (#) having two vertical lines
   intersected by two horizontal lines. It is also called the
   crosshatch, hash, numeral sign and number sign; in
   the U. S. it is commonly called the pound sign, especially
   to designate the symbol as used on digital telephone dials,
   but this can be confusing to Europeans who think of the pound
   sign as the symbol for the British pound. It is commonly used
   as a symbol for the word number; as in #36 (meaning: number
   thirty-six).
   [PJC]

         octothorp
         Otherwise known as the numeral sign. It has also been
         used as a symbol for the pound avoirdupois, but this
         usage is now archaic. In cartography, it is also a
         symbol for village: eight fields around a central
         square, and this is the source of its name. Octothorp
         means eight fields.
                                                  --Robert
                                                  Bringhurst
                                                  (The Elements
                                                  of Typographic
                                                  Style (2d
                                                  edition,
                                                  1996), Hartley
                                                  & Marks,
                                                  Publishers,
                                                  Point Roberts,
                                                  WA; Vancouver,
                                                  BC, Canada, p.
                                                  282)
   [Joel Neely]

	

	hash
    n 1: chopped meat mixed with potatoes and browned
    2: purified resinous extract of the hemp plant; used as a
       hallucinogen [syn: hashish, hasheesh, haschisch,
       hash]
    v 1: chop up; "hash the potatoes"

	

	203 Moby Thesaurus words for "hash":
   DET, DMT, LSD, Mary Jane, STP, THC, acid, admix, all sorts, alloy,
   amalgamate, antidepressant, arsy-varsiness, aspic, assemblage,
   assortment, ataractic, bad job, barbecue, bemingle, bevue, blend,
   blunder, bobble, boggle, boiled meat, bollix, bonehead play, boner,
   boo-boo, botch, botchery, bouilli, broad spectrum, bugger up,
   bungle, butcher, civet, clumsy performance, clutter, coalesce,
   combine, commingle, commix, compose, compound, concoct, confusion,
   conglomerate, conglomeration, diethyltryptamine,
   dimethyltryptamine, disaster, emulsify, error, etourderie, farrago,
   fiasco, flesh, flub, fluff, flunk, foozle, forcemeat, foul up,
   fumble, fuse, gage, gallimaufry, game, ganja, gaucherie, grass,
   hachis, hallucinogen, hash up, hashish, hay, helter-skelter, hemp,
   higgledy-piggledy, hodgepodge, homogenize, hotchpot, hotchpotch,
   hugger-mugger, hysteron proteron, immingle, immix, integrate,
   interblend, interlace, interlard, intermingle, intermix,
   intertwine, interweave, jerky, joint, jugged hare, jumble, jungle,
   kava, knead, litter, louse up, magpie, mangle, marijuana, mash,
   meat, medley, melange, menue viande, merge, mescal, mescal bean,
   mescal button, mescaline, mess, mess up, mince, mind-altering drug,
   mind-blowing drug, mind-expanding drug, mingle, mingle-mangle,
   miscellany, miscue, mishandle, mishmash, mismanage, mistake, mix,
   mix up, mix-up, mixed bag, mixture, morning glory seeds, muddle,
   muff, mull, muss, odds and ends, off day, olio, olla podrida,
   omnium-gatherum, pasticcio, pastiche, patchwork, pemmican, peyote,
   pot, pot roast, potpourri, psilocin, psilocybin, psychedelic,
   psychic energizer, psychoactive drug, psychochemical,
   psychotomimetic, reefer, roach, roast, ruin, rummage, sad work,
   salad, salmagundi, sauce, sausage meat, scramble, scrapple,
   screw up, shambles, shuffle, slip, snafu, spoil, stew, stick,
   stir up, stumble, syncretize, tea, throw together, topsy-turviness,
   topsy-turvydom, toss together, tranquilizer, trip, tumble, turmoil,
   unholy mess, venison, viande, washout, weed, welter, what you will,
   work

	

	hash
#
pound
pound sign
£

   1.  hash character.

   2.  hash coding.

   3. The preferred term for a Perl associative array.

   (1995-03-06)

	

	HASH, x.  There is no definition for this word -- nobody knows what
hash is.