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sling hash
Idioms and Phrases
Serve food in a restaurant, especially a cheap establishment. For example, The only job she could find was slinging hash in the neighborhood diner . This term alludes to the inelegant presentation and nature of the food, in effect, tossing hash before a customer. [ Slang ; mid-1800s]Example Sentences
The church used to sling hash for 24 hours, but now the stand generally runs from 6 a.m. to 10 p.m.
I want to rekindle that feeling when I was a kid and got to sit at the counter on the swivel stool and watch those giants sling hash like well-oiled machines.
CBS’s Two Broke Girls delivers the mass-market version of this kind of income-inequality comedy: the diner where the protagonists sling hash and insults with a crew of working-class types while saving their paychecks toward a business.
If Sal calculates to go into mourning for every man she has to sling hash to, we'd recommend her to buy up Briggs' stock and take one of Pat Hoolan's carriages for the season.
Unless the school board, the food service manager and I can learn more imaginative ways to sling hash, "biting the bullet" may end up on the school menus.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
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