slinger

hash slinger

A cook or a waitress, especially at a diner or cheap restaurant. ("Hash," in this sense, refers to a dish or stew of chopped meat and vegetables, not hashish.) Primarily heard in US. I worked as a hash slinger for several years to pay my way through college.
See also: hash, slinger

ink-slinger

slang A writer, especially one who produces a large amount of low-quality material for a living. I spent a lot of time after college as an ink-slinger for various newspapers and magazines while working on my first novel.
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

hash-slinger

n. a cook, waiter, or waitress in a hash-house. I worked as a hash-slinger in an all-night diner.

ink slinger

n. a professional writer; a newspaper reporter. The ink slingers have been at the candidates again.
See also: ink, slinger
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See also:
  • hash slinger
  • hash-slinger
  • sling hash
  • hash-house
  • Eat at Joe's
  • cheap as chips
  • (as) cheap as chips
  • a bit on the side
  • bit on the side
  • hash up
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Conveyor Application Systems Launches New Interactive Website
Pippa Nixon as Ophe-lia, Jonathan Slinger as Hamlet, inset left, and Greg Hicks as Claudius
The killing of a king is a funny business; The RSC bring some surprising laughter to Hamlet at Newcastle's Theatre Royal says LESLEY OLDFIELD ... and some great knitwear
Unlike Slinger, whose bile and antagonism towards his mother is blistering from their first exchange.
Slinger excels as RSC cast do new Hamlet full justice; REVIEW - HAMLET
However, the genuine 'kit slinger' is not perhaps the moody or sulky character you may think.
NO PANE, NO GAIN; Prior unlucky to be first 'slinger' to suffer
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General manufacturing, engineering & maintenance
On October 11, 2005, Joey Slinger, columnist with the Toronto Star, wrote that the Catholic Church's tax exempt status should be removed if the Pope decides that Catholic politicians who support abortion and same-sex "marriage" cannot receive communion.
Ontario--Canadians Tom Clarke and Maude Barlow will receive The Right Livelihood Award, also known as the Alternative Nobel Prize
Rumors are flying about whether he will hook up with one of the prominent shoe companies working thereabouts or a locally situated snowboard slinger. Veteran lensman Bill Parr astounded all recently when he fled his family's D Bar Ranch in Malibu and showed up in Seattle.
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Spidey/Peter Parker (Tobey Maguire) is hack in director Sam Raimi's sequel, and Marvel comics' web slinger is having a serious vocation crisis.
Spider-Man 2
Features include O-ring seals to eliminate dust leaks at potential penetration points, housing seals with a shaft slinger and seal to prevent abrasive dust from entering the bearing, and motor insulation for operation between 0[degrees] and 135[degrees]C.
Stepper motors
Moreover, two of the three cases described by Slinger et al.
Screening blood donors at risk for malaria: reply to Hanscheid et al. (Letters)
A cocktail then was more commonly known as a "bittered sling." It was common practice in the pre-Civil War South to consume the first "slinger," usually a mint julep in the morning for strength.
Rosel
Features include ANSI or metric flange connections, air- or water-cooled designs, mechanical or slinger seals, and belt- or direct--drive motor options, TEFG or explosion-proof.
Vacuum booster. (New Products)
Users can specify air- or water-cooled designs, mechanical or slinger seals, and belt or direct-drive options.
New products on the web!
"If Slinger's doin' the cookin,' the cook ain't the only one who's gonna be sick today," Slick said.
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