Definition of: hash

(hash) noun
1. A dish of chopped and cooked meat and vegetables, usually sautéed.
2. A mess; a jumble.
3. A rehash; any old thing brought forth in new form.
4. Scot. A wasteful or slovenly person; blockhead; dunce.
—to make a hash of Colloq. To bungle; spoil.
—to settle (one's) hash Colloq. To silence, finish off, or put down (a person).
—v.t.
1. To cut or chop into small pieces; mince.
2. U.S. Colloq. To make a mess of; bungle.
—to hash over U.S. Colloq. To talk or think about carefully; mull. [<OF hacher chop. See HATCH³.]