hash

Meanings

Noun

• Food, especially meat and potatoes, chopped and mixed together. Image:Corn-beef-hash.jpg|thumb|corn-beef hash
• A confused mess.
• The symbol (octothorpe, pound).
• The result generated by a hash function.
• 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.
• A new mixture of old material; a second preparation or exhibition; a rehashing.
• A hash run.
• A stupid fellow.
• Hashish, a drug derived from the cannabis plant.

Verb

• To chop into small pieces, to make into a hash.
• To make a quick, rough version.
• To transform according to a hash function.
• To make a mess [of something], to ruin.

Origin

• From French hacher, from Old French hache.