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settle someone's hash

verb

Definitions

  1. To physically or verbally subdue someone.

    • Wait and see old Caleb Quirk get into the box. I'll settle his hash in half a minute.
    • “But wait till I light on you, no matter where it is, I’ll settle your hash for a bit, yer little swine!”
    • 2004 July 8–14, "Devious Rabbit Tricks Bush Into Signing Gun Ban", The Onion, available in Embedded in America, →ISBN, page 202, "Sez Pezziden' Bush, sezee, 'I'm gwine ter settle yo' hash, ole Rabbit....'"

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for settle someone's hash. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA