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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
rehash
verb
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ I get the feeling that Smith rehashed parts of his life for the movie.
▪ The committee members just rehashed arguments made weeks before.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Admittedly, I went with the pre-conceived notion the show would be a tepid rehashing of old material.
▪ Every story like this gives the news media the opportunity to rehash the old material.
▪ If not done right, it could end up as an old story too often rehashed.
▪ Incumbents busy raising money for the next election are not inclined to waste energy rehashing the rules of the last campaign.
▪ On the radio, the same things get hashed and rehashed, over and over, day after day.
▪ Predictably, the styling rework has done the look of the 911 no favours: rehashing a beautiful original rarely does.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Rehash

Rehash \Re*hash"\, n. Something hashed over, or made up from old materials.

Rehash

Rehash \Re*hash"\ (r?*h?sh"), v. t. To hash over again; to prepare or use again; as, to rehash old arguments.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
rehash

1822, from re- "again" + hash (v.). Related: Rehashed; rehashing.

rehash

1849, from rehash (v.); "old material worked up anew," usually of literary productions.

Wiktionary
rehash

n. 1 Something reworked, or made up from old materials. 2 (context computing English) A recomputation of the structure of a hash table, taking into account any newly added items. vb. 1 (context transitive English) To rework old material (physical material, ideas, documents etc), redo some work, with some variations. 2 (context transitive computing English) To recompute the structure of a hash table, taking into account any newly added items.

WordNet
rehash
  1. n. old material that is slightly reworked and used again; "merely a dull rehash of his first novel"

  2. v. present or use over, with no or few changes

  3. go back over; "retrograde arguments" [syn: retrograde, hash over]

Wikipedia
Rehash (South Park)

"#REHASH" is the ninth episode in the eighteenth season of the American animated television series South Park. The 256th overall episode, it was written and directed by series co-creator and co-star Trey Parker. The episode premiered on Comedy Central in North America on December 3, 2014. The episode is part one of the two-part season finale. The episode lampoons the popularity of Internet Let's Play celebrities and the phenomena of Internet trending topics that lack actual relevance. The episode also references and intertwined multiple elements from previous episodes in the eighteenth season of South Park. YouTube celebrity PewDiePie plays himself in this episode.

Usage examples of "rehash".

An ill-digested rehash of Freud, Coue, and Buchman, the basis of Psychonamics appeared to be the self-hypnosis characteristic of its creator.

Despite the fact that it brought her into closer contact with Broud, she found herself interested and drawn to the men when they sat together spending long days rehashing earlier hunts or discussing strategy for future ones.

This book is not an attempt to rehash those familiar to the American public, but rather to expose an agenda behind the most insidious of the scandals, those most threatening to a free republic.

A stale rehash of handball scores was no substitute for seeing the interdivisional games, and electronic checkers with your shipmate was damn sure no substitute for sex.

It was furnished with a long, comfortable leather sofa and a single matching chair, and it was there that they hashed and rehashed the Ballantine matter.

It was half an hour later, and they were still sitting at the kitchen table, the remains of their evening meal littering the surface as they rehashed everything they knew about the fifteen-year-old murder.

None of us ever tired of rehashing the facts, though there was nothing new to add.

The ideas of Kinnock, Gonzales, Mitterrand, Papandreou, are nothing new, but simply a vulgarised rehash of those expressed by Bernstein at the turn of the century.

Don't think about this album in terms of banalities, or in terms of a trivial rehashing of your life experiences.

I also had a suspicion that coadunation was nothing but a rehash of the romantic old notion of the perfectibility of human nature.

Beginning With the assertion that he had been betrayed, let crown, and doublecrossed by us ever since 1939, this soliloquy reviewed the entire war in astonishing detail, rehashing his favorite grievances against the military, from brauchitsch and Halder to Manstein and Guderian, the whole tragic procession that had taken the blame for his blunders.

Though it had been twenty-four hours since the body had been found, neighbors stood in small knots pointing and gawking, rehashing the few details they had gleaned from television and newspaper reports, and adding new gory ones from the multitude of rumors that raced through the neighborhood.

After that tidbit came a rehash of the Hungerford massacre and a query, “Is this a copycat killing?

Patricia Mangano who was in charge of the guard detail allowed the children to play in the opulent lounges while parents mixed freely, speculating on their circumstances and rehashing old gossip as only their profession knew how.

We can continue to rehash the old unanswered and unanswerable questions, and philosophy will then remain what it has always been: a parlor game of mental gymnastics, played by ivory-tower intellectuals.