How do you use the word "hash" in a sentence?

Here are real-life examples of using "hash": Let's hash it all out. I have steak, eggs, hash browns, toast, and coffee.

Hash Meaning

/ˈhæʃ/

Definition, CEFR level C1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.

Definition

nounFood, especially meat and potatoes, chopped and mixed together.

nounA confused mess.

Sentence Examples

Let's hash it all out.

I have steak, eggs, hash browns, toast, and coffee.

CEFR Practice Quiz

For breakfast, he ordered a plate of ____, made from chopped potatoes and meat.

CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)

The programmer used a ____ function to securely store the user's password in the database.

Word Origin & History

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”).

Literary Quotations & Historical Citations

"I had for them, after oysters, at first course, a hash of rabbits, a lamb, and a rare chine of beef." — 1633, Samuel Pepys, Diary:

"Oh! no, not Naylor's--the girls have made a hash there, as they do everything else; but we will settle her before they come out again." — 1847, Charlotte Yonge, Scenes and Characters:

"The keyboard 10 has four named keys (not shown) marked “VIEWDATA”, “PROGRAM”, “PAGE TRANSMIT”, and “CLEAR” and two further keys (marked respectively with an asterisk and a hash symbol) in addition to the numeric keys previously mentioned." — 1981 September 15, David C. A. Connolly, Harry Shutt, U.S. Patent 4289930, Electronic aparatus for the display of information received over a line:

"Most hashes are planned as family affairs, with a shorter "puppy" trail laid for the children." — 1987, Susan Scott-Stevens, Foreign Consultants and Counterparts, page 81:

"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." — 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling:

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