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hash house

noun

, 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.

hash house

An Americanism dating back to 1865–70

With the freedom of the camps he assaulted our ears and claimed the fellowship of men lost in the wilds of a hash house.

Poor Molly was an indifferent cook, and the food at Rainsford's hash-house was horrible.

We get pitched out of five before I steer him to a hash house.

We traveled along the road that leads from the hash house, and met a farmer with a gun.

He took her by the arm and piloted her across the thoroughfare, then into the dingy hash-house and to a table in a far corner.

April 18, 2024petrichor

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