Hashing Dictionary
- Alcohol Abuse: spilling or otherwise wasting
beer at any time during a hash, especially during down-downs
- Annual General Meeting (AGM): in many hashes,
the occasion for annual erections of hash mismanagement; in others, an
excuse for a party; also Annual General Piss Up
- Annual General Piss Up (AGPU): see Annual
General Meeting
- Aprés: dinner, drinking, or continued partying
after hash formalities have concluded; see On-Afters, On-On-Ons,
On-On-On-Ons
- "Are You?" (R U?): question shouted by the
pack to FRBs, meaning "Are you on trail?"
- Arrow: directional trail mark; also see True
Trail Arrow, Pack Arrow
- A-to-A: trail that ends where it starts
- A-to-B: point-to-point trail
- Auto-Hashing: hitching a ride to the end, a
heinous violation of hash etiquette
- Back Check (BC): trail mark* indicating that
runners should turn around and retrace their path while looking for
true trail, which branched off somewhere before the BC; sometimes
accompanied by a number indicating the number of marks the pack should
go back before looking for true trail
- Bad Trail (BT): 1) a section of trail which
goes nowhere; 2) trail mark* indicating the end of a BT; see also False
Trail, YBF
- Balls Check: trail mark* indicating a check or
intersection which must be solved by male hashers before the pack can
proceed
- Bash: bicycle hash
- Basher: bicycle hasher
- Bashing: hashing by bicycle
- Beer: see Piss
- Beer Check: 1) beverage stop; 2) trail mark*
indicating a beverage stop
- Beer Master: mismanagement member in charge of
ensuring an adequate beverage supply for hash events; also
"biermeister"
- Beer Near: trail mark* indicating proximity of
beverages; can be associated with a beer check, on-in, or on-home
- Blow Job: see Bad Trail
- Boob Check: trail mark* indicating a check or
intersection which must be solved by female hashers before the pack can
proceed
- Butt Chug: See Debauchery
- Butt Painting: See Debauchery
- B-Van: vehicle used to transport beer, food,
hash bags
- Caught Hare: a hare who has been overtaken and
physically caught by a member of the pack; normally honored during
Down-Downs
- Chalk: basic substance used for marking trail;
see also Flour, Paper
- Chalk Talk: trail instructions for virgin or
visiting hashers
- Check: trail mark* indicating an intersection
where true trail may take another direction
- "Checking!": answer shouted by FRB to pack
when asked "Are You?", indicating that FRB has not determined whether
the trail he's following is true or false
- Chicken/Eagle Split: Fork in a trail; Eagle for
faster/braver runners, chicken for slower/walkers/pansies
- Circle: assembly of hashers at trail's end,
normally for the purpose of conducting down-downs
- Co-hare: hare's assistant . . . in many hashes
it is normal to have two or more hares laying trail together; in others
it is a rare event
- Couth Monger : see also Hash Devil
- C-word: euphemism for "competition" or
"competitive"
- Dead Fucking Last (DFL): last member of pack
to finish trail, sometimes honored during down-downs (though this goes
against the grain of hashing's "non-competitive" ethos)
- Dead Hare: hare who lays the entire trail
before the pack sets out; sometimes accompanies the pack to ensure it
doesn't get lost (see Sweeper)
- Dead on Trail (DOT): hopelessly lost
- Debauchery: Any of several morale-building
mixed-sex activities indulged in by hashers, usually during aprés,
usually (but not always) confined to American hashing circles
- Doo-Loop: looping section of trail designed to
slow down the pack and give the hare more lead
- Down-Down: the ceremony of quaffing a beverage
(an honor)
- Down-Downs: the ceremony of honoring deserving
hashers after the trail
- Down-Down Box: a clearly defined square or
rectangular area in which all down-downs are consumed. Anyone who
enters this box, for whatever reason, must do a down-down
- Eagle Trail: an optional section of trail,
longer or more difficult than the standard trail
- Erections: mismanagement elections, normally
accomplished during the AGM
- False Trail: see Bad Trail; a section
of trail going nowhere, designed to slow down the pack and give the
hare more lead
- F.B.A.C.: Fat Boys' Athletic Club; a kinder,
gentler subset of the hashing community with rigorous membership
standards
- Flour: a basic substance used to mark trail;
see also Chalk, Paper
- Front Running Bastard (FRB): faster member of
the pack, also the one member of the pack who finishes trail first (and
is normally "honored" for same, since one should not be competitive)
- Full Moon: frequently an occasion for an
evening hash; many kennels hash every full moon throughout the year
- "G" Day: February 11th. A.S. Gispert ("G"),
the father of hashing, was killed in action defending Singapore from
invading Japanese forces on this date in 1942
- Gay: general-use adjective used to describe
something as limp, lame, bland, or wimpy; opposite of Slutty
- Grand Master: mismanagement member, ceremonial
leader of the kennel; also Hash Master
- Grand Mattress: mismanagement member;
sometimes used as the title for a female grand master
- Grand Mistress: mismanagement member;
sometimes used as the title for a female grand master, but often used
as the title for someone who organizes hash parties and dinners
- GrrrAnimals: matching or coordinated running
attire worn by poofters, normally a punishable offense
- Hare: hasher who lays the trail; see Live
Hare, Dead Hare
- Hare Arrow: trail mark*, normally means "true
trail," but not always
- Hare Raiser: mismanagement member in charge of
lining up hares for future trails
- Harrier: any hasher, male or female; in some
hashes, a male hasher
- Harriette: female hasher
- Hash: 1) the Hash House Harriers, as in "I run
with the hash"; 2) an individual kennel, as in "I run with the New York
Hash"; 3) the actual event, as in "I'm hashing tonight"; 4) trail
marks*, as in chalk, flour, or paper
- Hash Bag: bag of dry clothes and other
post-trail necessities; see also Shag Bag
- Hash Cash: 1) mismanagement member; the
treasurer; 2) financial resources of the hash
- Hash Crier: mismanagement member; calls other
members to let them know when and where runs will start
- Hash Devil: mismanagement member; in some
hashes, the person in charge of down-downs or singling hashers out for
violations; see also Couth Monger
- Hasher: any Hash House Harrier
- Hash Etiquette: euphemism for "rule"; also see
Rule # 1
- Hash Flash: hash photographer
- Hash God: see Self-Appointed Officious
Assholes
- Hash Haberdasher: mismanagement member in
charge of T-shirts, hats, mementos, etc
- Hash Harlot: mismanagement member, often a
female religious adviser; meaning varies between kennels
- Hash Horn: mismanagement member; carries a
horn or bugle on trail, blows it to encourage and guide the pack
- Hash House: 1) the Selangor Club in Kuala
Lumpur, meeting place of the Mother Hash; 2) any hash hangout,
usually a bar
- Hash House Harrier: any hasher
- Hash House Harriers (HHH or H3): 1) hashers;
2) the hash
- Hash House Horrors: hashers' children
- Hash Hymn: song sung by the pack during
down-downs; see also International Hash Hymn
- Hashing: the act of running a hash trail
- Hash Master: mismanagement member; see Grand
Master
- Hash Name: nickname, usually bestowed after a
set number of runs or in honor of a notable incident; not used by all
hashes
- Hash Olympics: games played during
interhashes, usually involving drinking; can involve debauchery
- Hash Quack: mismanagement member in charge of
administering first aid to injured hashers
- Hash Scribe: mismanagement member normally in
charge of writing the hash trash
- Hash Shit (Hash-It, Hashit): offensive or
embarrassing object given to a hasher for notable on-trail
accomplishments, normally carried by the awardee on subsequent trails
until it is awarded to someone else; sometimes also used as a nickname
for the awardee
- Hash Trash: newsletter containing writeups of
past runs and announcements of upcoming events
- Hash Time: an erratic measure of a precise
phenomena. If the hash is scheduled to start at 2:00 pm, the actual
start may be 2:17 or 2:29, or ???
- Hat: in most hashes, not to be worn while
doing down-downs
- Hounds: the body of hashers in pursuit of the
hare, see also Pack
- HUYA: a plunger, acronym stands for "head up
your ass"
- Interhash: regional, national, or world hash
gathering
- Intersection: see Check
- International Hash Hymn: "Swing Low, Sweet
Chariot"; see Hash Hymn
- Joint Master (JM): co-GM; in some hashes, an
assistant to the GM
- Kennel: Hash House Harrier chapter or club
- Live Hare: hare who gets a nominal head start
and is pursued by the pack as he lays trail
- Loop: see Doo-Loop
- Long-Cutting Bastard (LCB): 1) slower member
of the pack; 2) someone who gets horribly lost and comes in late
- Mismanagement: hash officials; sometimes
elected, sometimes appointed
- Mooning: mild form of debauchery
- Mother Hash: Kuala Lumpur Hash House Harriers,
first organized in 1938, still going strong and an inspiration to us
all (except for the bit about "no women")
- M-word: euphemism for "marathon"
- Naming Committee: group of hashers who bestow
hash names upon new hashers
- Nash Hash: a national interhash
- New Boot: see Virgin
- New Shoe: drinking vessel used during
down-downs; see also Tea Bag; heinous violation of hash
etiquette
- No Blow: hasher who forgets his whistle,
normally honored with a down-down
- On-Afters: see Aprés, On-On-Ons,
On-On-On-Ons
- "On-Back": shouted by FRBs to the pack when
FRBs encounter a back check
- On-Before: where hashers gather before the
start of the hash, usually a public establishment
- On-Home: 1) trail's end, also On-In;
2) trail mark* indicating proximity to end
- On-In: see On-Home
- On-Off: start of trail
- "On-On": 1) shouted by FRBs or hounds to
indicate they're on trail, sometimes used only to indicate true trail;
2) trail mark* in lieu of a true trail arrow
- On-On-Ons: see Aprés, On-Afters,
On-On-On-Ons
- On-On-On-Ons: see Aprés, On-Afters,
On-On-Ons
- "On-One" ("On-Two," etc): shouted by FRBs or
hounds to indicate the number of flour marks they've seen on an
unexplored trail, usually after a check
- On-Sec: mismanagement member normally in
charge of hash rosters, run records, etc
- On-Sex: more than one on-sec
- "On the Ice!": 1) in many kennels, the block
of ice upon which honorees sit during down-downs; 2) command given by
the GM or RA to down-down recipients
- On-Up! (or down, under, over, through, etc):
what hounds sound to let those following know that the trail has become
a challenge and the type of challenge being encountered
- On-X: trail mark* meaning "on across," usually
found near freeways, airport runways, rivers, etc
- Oz: Australia
- Pack: hashers in pursuit of the hare, also Hounds
- Pack Arrow: mark left by a member of the pack
indicating direction taken; follow at your own peril
- Paper: basic substance used to mark trail; see
also Chalk, Flour
- Pelican Drinking: See Debauchery
- Phantom Hare: secret hare, unknown to the pack
- Photo Hash: theme hash where a photograph
shows the pack where to run to; another photograph will be hidden at
that location, and so on . . . a variation is the "Clue Hash," where
hashers find their way by written clues
- Pick-Up Hash: hash where the hare is chosen at
the last minute, usually through a drawing or game of chance; head
starts are shorter and the hare is expected to be caught often--the
hound catching the hare becomes the next hare, and so on
- Piss: see Beer
- Piss Drinking: See Debauchery
- Pissed: drunk
- "Piss Off": go away, get fucked, etc
- Piss-Up: drinking session; a party
- Piss Wagon: see B-Van
- Player: obnoxious asshole; see also Poofter
- Poofter: literally, a homo; in hash use, 1) a
homo; 2) anyone not welcome at the hash (see Rule # 6); 3) a
poseur; 4) a person who hangs around the hash but isn't really a
hasher; 5) a major whinger; 6) a non-contributor in general; 7) a
"player"
- Poofterism: behavior associated with poofters
- Pre-Lay: act of laying the trail or sections
thereof before the hash; sometimes a violation, sometimes not,
depending on kennel traditions; like masturbation, widely practiced but
seldom admitted
- Private Party: act of participating in a
non-circle conversation, thereby showing disrespect to the GM during
down-downs
- Queef: say what?
- Ranging: the process whereby certain hounds
run with total disregard for the trail
- Receding Hareline: list of upcoming hash
events, normally printed in the hash trash
- Red Dress Run: theme hash where hares and pack
wear red dresses; variations include lingerie runs, mini-skirt runs,
muumuu runs, nude runs, etc
- Regroup: trail mark* used in some hashes,
where FRBs must wait for all members of the pack to arrive before
setting out again
- Religious Adviser/Advisor (RA): mismanagement
member normally in charge of blessing the hash and settling disputes
over tradition; sometimes in charge of down-down ceremonies
- Respect: reverential attitude of
right-thinking pack members toward the GM during the circle and
down-downs
- Rule: universally-understood tenet of
acceptable hash behavior; never called a "rule" but often euphemized as
"tradition" or "hash etiquette"
- Rule # 1: "There are no rules"
- Rule # 2: "See Rule # 1"
- Rule # 6: "No poofters!"
- R-word: euphemism for "race," "run," or "rule"
- Self-Appointed Officious Assholes: see Hash
God
- Shag Bag: a bag of dry/warm clothing for use
after the hash; see also Hash Bag
- Shandy: "lady's" down-down drink made of beer
and ginger ale; most often seen in the UK or Down Under
- Shiggy: jungle, thick vegetation, rocks,
cliffs, streams, etc; especially mud
- Shiggy-Shaggy (aka Zicky-Zacky): a
chant made by the hash in response to anyone verbally screwing up. The
offender must drink beer, but not necessarily a full down-down
- Shitty: adjective used to describe a really
good trail
- Short-Cutting: the act of attempting to
short-cut the trail, see also Zenning
- Short-Cutting Bastard (SCB): habitual
short-cutter, a title of esteem in most hashes
- Singapore Back Check (SBC): trail mark*
indicating that true trail branched off somewhere between the SBC mark
and the previous check
- Sixty-Nine: a number fraught with significance
- Slutty: general-use adjective used to describe
something as strong, robust, or satisfying; opposite of Gay
- Song Master: mismanagement member; leads
down-down songs
- Sweeper: hasher, normally an experienced
member of the pack, assigned to follow the pack in order to ensure no
one gets lost; this function is sometimes performed by a dead hare
- Tea Bag: sock or sole insert from a new shoe,
the liquid from which is wrung out into a violator's mouth after he or
she has finished a down-down from the offending footwear
- Tradition: euphemism for "rule"; also see Rule
# 1
- Trail Recce: act of scouting a potential
trail; hare practice
- True Trail: the correct trail that leads to
the on-in
- True Trail Arrow: trail mark* indicating true
trail
- Trusted Agent: Hound who has been told where
the on-in is in case the pack gets lost
- Turkey Trail: optional section of trail,
normally shorter and easier than the main trail
- Turtle Check: trail mark* indicating that FRBs
should wait at the mark until the slower hashers (the turtles) have
caught up; normally used on dead hare trails to keep the pack together
(in some hashes this is known as a Circle Check)
- Up-Up: trail mark used to taunt the pack on a
hilly trail
- Violation: any infraction of hash etiquette or
tradition, on- or off-trail
- Violator: he or she who must be punished,
normally by down-down
- Virgin: first-time hasher; also applied to
first-time hare
- Virgin Lay: 1) a virgin hare's first trail; 2)
a new kennel's first hash
- Walkers: infant, infirm, or elderly hashers
- Wanker: literally, a masturbator; in
English/Australian use, a sort of "Sad Sack" character; in hash use, an
everyday hasher
- Wherdafugarwee?: from a hash song, what a
hound might say when lost
- Whinge: whine
- Whinger: whiner; see also Poofter
- Whinging: whining
- X: trail mark* used to indicate a check or
intersection
- Yak Circle: a clearly defined circle next to
the Down-Down Box in which all vomitus is deposited
- YBF: bad trail mark*; stands for "You've Been
Fucked"
- Zenning: striking out cross-country in
anticipation of finding the on-in; see also Short-Cutting
- Zicky-Zacky: see Shiggy-Shaggy
* asterisked trail marks are
normally made only by the hares; non-asterisked trail marks may be made
by either the hares or members of the pack