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rehash

verb, noun — 6 senses

rehash

verb

/ɹiːˈhæʃ/

Etymology From re- + hash.

1

To hash (chop food into small pieces) again.

  • I never did care for Sunday joint that was served up cold on Monday, hashed on Tuesday, rissoled on Wednesday, and re-hashed on Thursday[.]1942 July 1, The Newcastle and Maitland Catholic Sentinel, Newcastle, NSW, page 224, column 2:
2

To repeat with minor variation.

  • Today's parliamentary session only rehashed last week's arguments.
  • The CEO of the company only rehashed a speech for the news conference.
1 more example
  • The general rehashed plans for the war.
3

To analyze a prior contentious or embarrassing event.

  • Let's not rehash what we did last night.
4

Computing, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Sciences To recompute the structure of a hash table, taking into account any newly added items.

Derived terms
rehashable, rehasher

rehash

noun

/ˈɹiːˌhæʃ/

Etymology From re- + hash.

1

Something reworked, or made up from old materials.

  • He wrote a bad rehash of an earlier essay.
2

Computing, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Sciences A recomputation of the structure of a hash table, taking into account any newly added items.

Entry derived from the Wiktionary, under licence CC BY-SA 4.0 — list of authors.

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