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Definition of Hash house
1. Noun. An inexpensive restaurant.
Definition of Hash house
1. Noun. (American English) (slang) A cheap restaurant ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hash House
Literary usage of Hash house
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Witmark Amateur Minstrel Guide and Burnt Cork Encyclopedia by Frank Dumont (1905)
"HAMLET ON THE hash house. To eat or not to eat, that's the question. Whether 'tis
better on the whole to suffer The slurs and slaps of ..."
2. The Woman who Waits by Frances R. Donovan (1920)
"The hash house depends for patronage upon men customers. The hash house is open
day and night. The employees, both men and women, work in "watches" of nine ..."
3. The Argo by Williams College (1884)
"In the first place, I'm going to board at the hash house and save thirty dollars
cold. What's the use of the college setting up cheap board, ..."
4. The Thorough Good Cook: A Series of Chats on the Culinary Art, and Nine by George Augustus Sala (1896)
"... at least, the colloquial name for what is known in England as a " genteel
boarding establishment" is a " hash-house." It is a sufficiently curious fact, ..."
5. James Nelson Burnes: Late a Representative in Congress from Missouri. His by Edward W. De Knight, James Nelson Burnes (1889)
"To stop the "hash-house " business of Jefferson City, or in the slightest to
diminish it, will create more commotion in that city than ever agitated the ..."
6. The Bookman (1897)
"It was rather clever, but it was written in the sort of language that one would
expect to hear from a hobo in a Bowery hash-house ; and when we remembered ..."
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