English

Noun

hashhouse ‎(plural hashhouses)

1. (US colloquial) A cheap diner or eating-house.
   • 1943, Raymond Chandler, The High Window, Penguin 2005, p. 86:

     ‘We went out about three-thirty or so to get something to eat at the hashhouse around the corner,’ Hench said.

   • 1946, Mezz Mezzrow and Bernard Wolfe, Really the Blues, Payback Press 1999, p. 88:

     In the big town, no job, has to deal 'em off the arm in hashhouse again, sad.