Definition of "hash" in English

noun

1. Food, especially meat and potatoes, chopped and mixed together.

   • Near-synonym: scramble

2. A confused mess.

3. (typography) The # symbol (octothorpe, pound).

4. (computing) The result generated by a hash function.

5. (computing, cryptocurrencies) One guess made by a mining computer in the effort of finding the correct answer which releases the next unit of cryptocurrency; see also hashrate.

6. A new mixture of old material; a second preparation or exhibition; a rehashing.

   • October 28, 1752, Horace Walpole, letter to Sir Horace Mann I cannot bear elections, and still less the hash of them over again in a first session.

7. A hash run.

8. (Scotland) A stupid fellow.

verb

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

2. To make a quick, rough version.

   • We need to quickly hash up some plans.

3. (computing, transitive) To transform according to a hash function.

4. (transitive, colloquial) To make a mess of (something); to ruin.

noun

1. (slang) Hashish, a drug derived from the cannabis plant.