Hash Glossary

• Are you? A query yelled out by hounds to other members of the pack to ask "Are you on trail?"
• Beer - Yes, please!
• Beer Stop - A point in the trail where the pack stops to rest & regroup while consuming beverages organised by the gracious hares.
• Bull Sheet - BPH3 Hash Trash. Write up on the run produced by scribe for the week.
• Check - A big "X" or circle marked on the trail which indicates that the trail (may) now veer off in a new direction. The pack then must search around and find where the trail starts up again--usually within 100 yards or so.
• Check Back - Act of backtracking to locate trail.
• Checking! - Utterance during the act of looking for flour.
• Circle - Convivial post-run piss-take session at which down-downs are usually presented to hares, visitors, returners, sinners and leavers.
• Co-hare - Hare's accomplice.
• Down-down - What you do with beer, to chug down beer while being serenaded with rude, lewd songs by off-key hashers. Any beer (or soda for non-drinkers) that cannot be consumed must be dumped over ones head. Down-downs are administered/awarded/assigned for any one of numerous hash crimes.
• Drunk - A state of mind that can occur with frequent hashing.
• Elections - Usually rigged
• False trail - Designed to turn pack around, falsie.
• Flour - Used by the Hares to mark the trail. Self raising helps when it rains.
• FRB - Front-running bastard
• Grand Master - Supreme leader of a Hash chapter. Also known as GM or GMH.
• Grand Mattress - Female version of above
• Grand Mistress - Alternative for above
• Hare - The person who determines the trail to be run and then sets the marks to lead the pack to the On-In. Trickery and deception are often employed to foil the pack in its quest for beer. Accepts all blame for cock-ups.
• Harrier - Male hasher, hashman.
• Harriet - Female Hasher
• Harriette - French Harriet
• Hash - Refers to the run, the group of people who run or the act of running and drinking. Has nothing to do with the drug term: Hashish
• Hash Cash - Club treasurer
• Hash Crimes - Wearing new shoes, being a new hasher, being the hare, having a birthday, treating the hash like a race, wearing a race shirt, saying the word race, getting married, getting laid, getting lost, getting found, auto-hashing, being named, being renamed, visiting a hash, leaving a hash, returning to a hash, etc etc etc. Note that anyone can nominate anyone else for a hash crime and said nominee can be awarded a down-down regardless of the veracity of said nomination.
• Hash Flash - Photographer on the run
• Hash Haberdasher - Vendor of Hash apparel, insignia and ensemble
• Hash Hole - Warning to following hashers of potential hazardous subsidence on trail, foxhole, warren etc.
• Hash Horn - Rallies the pack. Remember, short toots for `checking'; a long blast signals On-On! The hasher who carries it.
• Hash Hymnal - Song "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot"
• Hashoholic - If discovered, administer beer immediately
• Hashoholism - Highly infectious condition first reported in South East Asia in the late 1930s.
• Hash Nurse - Assists bleeding Hashers!
• Hash Sniff - Responsible for finding the start of the trail.
• HHH - Hash House Harriers, H3
• Hound - See "Pack"
• Mark - Either a chalk arrow, blob of flour, surveyors tape or toilet paper used to indicate the direction of the trail
• Mismanagement - club committee
• NFG - New Fucking Guy/gal; any unnamed hasher
  
• On - A state of being. That is, being "on" trail means you have seen hash marks that were made by the hares. Nothing to do with PMT
• On-After - Refers to the place the hash goes to after the run to eat, drink beer, sing, drink beer, and drink beer. Usually to a local bar, but occasionally, one of the hashers will be foolish enough to invite everyone over to tear up their home
• On-In - The arrival at the end of the trail; the location of the food and beer. Also, a futile goal of many male hashers
• On-On - Yelled out by members of the hash to indicate to the rest of the pack they are on the right trail. Also used as a hash salutation (esp. in electronic mail messages)
• On-Out - Hash salutation used by hashers to indicate they are leaving the On-In for the On-After or leaving the On-In for home.
• Really Drunk - A state of mind that can occur with frequent hashing.
• Religious Advisor - Sets the tone and discipline of the Hash. Seeks out Hash Criminals and punishes accordingly with Down Downs. Also known as the RA.
• Respect - To be shown to the Hash Master, Religious Advisor, or whoever is running the circle.
• Shortcutting - Avoiding perfectly good trail marks in an attempt to be lazy. This is usually done on purpose and if you find the trail while avoiding some particularly long boring section you have in fact short-cut... however, many times this type of behavior ends up in the hound becoming hopelessly lost.
• SCB - Short-cutting bastard. A bastard that short-cuts.
• Shiggy - Briars, slime, mud, deep creeks, quicksand, swamps, storm drains and other terrain which makes the hares happy and causes much pain and discomfort to the hounds that follow
• Sponsors - Help provide Hash apparel, website, beers, parties ... anything in fact
• Virgin - Someone who is new to hashing. Like virginity, this state once lost, can never be regained.
  
• WebMaster - one who manages or maintains a home page or web site for the hash
• Whistle/Horn - Small device worn around ones neck that is blown loudly to indicate to those far behind you that you are actually "on trail" and they should follow you.