Green’s Dictionary of Slang

hash n.2

[abbr.]

(drugs) hashish.

[US]Monteleone Criminal Sl. (rev. edn) 113: hash An intoxicating preparation made from the sprouts of Indian hemp.
[US]Kerouac letter May in Charters I (1995) 480: I’d like to be there high on hash.
[UK]‘Raymond Thorp’ Viper 89: With charge short the cats’ll pay anything for hash.
[UK]T. Keyes All Night Stand 121: ‘And this hash’ [...] A small lump the size of a penny and about as thick as a thumb.
[US]G.V. Higgins Friends of Eddie Coyle 12: They tell me there’s some hash floating around in the real swinging places.
[US](con. 1940s–60s) H. Huncke ‘Whitey’ in Eve. Sun Turned Crimson (1998) 207: Perhaps his girl would come by with some hash and pot.
[Aus]R.G. Barrett Godson 211: ‘I’ve had a bit of hash’.
[US]Tarantino & Avery Pulp Fiction [film script] 7: Hash is legal there, right?
[Aus]P. Temple Black Tide (2012) [ebook] Nicotine, dope, hash, barbiturates, speed, acid, smack [...] all entered the massive frame by some route.
[UK]N. Griffiths Grits 60: Nick’s sound for hash like, but enny’in else, ferget it, boy.
[Aus]R.G. Barrett Rosa Marie’s Baby (2013) [ebook] ‘Would you like a smoke now? I got some hash joints in my bag’.
[UK]A. Wheatle Dirty South 2: The Portuguese shottas sell the best hash in London.
[UK]K. Richards Life 5: In the cap’s pockets there’s hash, Tuinals, some coke.
[US]T. Robinson Hard Bounce [ebook] I busted him lighting a hash pipe.
[Scot]A. Parks Bloody January 40: [S]he went up to buy hash.
[Scot]G. Armstrong Young Team 44: Smokin hash makes yi sluggish.
[Ire]L. McInerney Rules of Revelation 45: [He] sold hash to the bigger boys.
[Scot]A. Parks May God Forgive 55: ‘Malcom got expelled for selling hash’.

In compounds

hash-bash (n.) [bash n.1 (3)]

(drugs) an evening spent sitting around smoking hashish.

[US]Hashbash.com 🌐 ****WARNING! THIS IS A SMOKE-IN**** No, it is not legal (yet) to smoke marijuana at the HASH BASH. The event takes place on the campus of The University of Michigan and they enforce state law. But on city property it is not a crime it is a civil infraction. Every year the cops seem to nab a few folks during our ONE HOUR OF POWER!
hash-cake (n.)

a cake of any sort into the ingredients of which hashish has been mixed; such cakes, thanks to the cooking process, render the hashish a good deal more potent than simply smoking it.

[UK]Guardian 21 July 🌐 Letters of support, many enclosing packets of seeds that we planted in the tubs around Canary Wharf, came pouring in. Hash cake arrived by the pound.
Ananova.com 28 June 🌐 Festival goers at Glastonbury have been warned not to eat too many hash cakes.
hash-head (n.) [-head sfx (4)]

(US) a habitual user of hashish.

[US]W. Burroughs Naked Lunch (1968) 112: You bloody hash-heads, get out of here!
[US]Time 31 Jan. 42: Morocco is a hashhead’s delight.
[US]L. Bangs in Psychotic Reactions (1988) 6: Last we heard he was trying to sing ‘Whole Lotta Love’ to a buncha sentimental old hashheads in some Podunk club.
[US] W. Safire What’s the Good Word? 218: Hashheads [...] are not necessarily ‘spaced out.’.
hash-monster (n.) [-monster sfx]

(US drugs) a crumb of hashish burned on the point of a pin; the smoke is trapped in a container and then inhaled through a straw.

[US]Da Smokehouse Marijuana Gloss. 🌐 hash-monster [us]: burning a crumb of hashish on point of a pin, trapping the smoke under glass, inhaling through a straw.
hashover (n.) [play on the drinkers’ hangover]

the after-effects of an evening’s heavy indulgence in smoking hashish.

cartel posting in ‘Article in the Express Last Week’ on UKCultivator.biz 7 Jul. 🌐 I have a high pressure professional job nowadays and besides a ‘hashover’ after a heavy night there is little effect.
hash-rat (n.)

a smoker of hashish.

[US]Eminem ‘Under the Influence’ 🎵 In Amsterdam we only hang out with hash rats.

In phrases

black hash (n.) [opium is black; thus darkening the usu. khaki-coloured hashish]

(drugs) dark hashish, often the result of its being mixed with opium during its manufacture.

[US] in Spears Sl. and Jargon of Drugs and Drink (1986).
[Aus]Smith & Noble Neddy (1998) 253: The scam consisted of ripping off a guy for 100 kilos of black hash [cannabis resin].
[US]ONDCP Street Terms 3: Black hash — Opium mixed with hashish.