different between hashhouse vs hashing

English

From hash +? house.

hashhouse (plural hashhouses)

(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.

hashing (uncountable)

A social, non-competitive sport in which participants of a hash run use clues to follow a hash trail.

hashing

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