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Word of the Day Wednesday, June 10, 2026

hashes

/hæʃɪz/ noun · British & US
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What does hashes mean?

noun

Small pieces of food, especially meat, cut into small, irregular shapes. A type of cryptographic function that takes input data of any size and produces a fixed-size string of characters.

Example

"The chef chopped the meat into small hashes for the stew. The password was hashed to protect it from unauthorized access."

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