hash-slinger

[ hash-sling-er ]

noun

, Slang.

1. a waiter or waitress, especially in a hash house.
2. a short-order cook.

Word History and Origins

Origin of hash-slinger¹

An Americanism dating back to 1865–70

Example Sentences

He had to try to better it by marrying the Swede hash-slinger from Los Angeles.

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It was inconceivable that Birdie––or, as he mentally apostrophized her, “this blamed hash-slinger”––should so flout him.

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He said she was a hash-slinger before the Red Death, though I don't know what a hash-slinger is.

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And after a year of that she became waitress in a cheap restaurant—hash-slinger, she called it.

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Then Denver's some in the turtle-dove business, according to that hash-slinger in Cheyenne.

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