hash-house

hash-house

A diner or cheap restaurant. We were pretty broke after our trip, so we just stopped at a hash-house on our way home.
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

hash-house

1. n. a cheap diner. (Where hash might be on the menu.) Tom worked for two days as a hash-slinger in a hash-house.
2. n. a place where hashish is sold and used. (Drugs.) This hash-house is due for a raid. Let’s hit it.
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See also:
  • on one's
  • on someone's
  • out of one's
  • (I've) got to go
  • save someone's skin
  • (Have you) been OK?
  • other than
  • other than (something)
  • pillow-biter
  • let something drop
References in classic literature
I've seen him eat in a ten-cent hash-house and pay fifty cents for the cigar he smoked afterward.
Martin Eden
Critics said she looked like the thoroughly American hash-house (cheap-priced cafA) waitress.
Hollywood's wartime pin-up dies at 56
"Eighty-six' is hash-house slang for the act of cancellation and prohibition.
Eighty-sixing '86