noun
an inexpensive restaurant
• Hypernyms: ↑restaurant, ↑eating house, ↑eating place, ↑eatery
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nounat an all-night hash house … he nurses a cup of coffee and a doughnut — Norman Mailer
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Slang.
an inexpensive restaurant, diner, or the like, that serves a limited number of short-order dishes: We stopped for lunch at a roadside hash house.
[1865-70, Amer.]
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hash house,
U.S. Slang. a cheap restaurant.
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n. informal a cheap restaurant
Useful english dictionary. 2012.