Definition of "hash browns" [hash browns]

• Chopped cooked potatoes, fried until brown. Also called hash brown potatoes. (noun-plural)

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• "He ate bacon and eggs and hash browns at the Denny’s the next morning, then drove over to an electronics place he knew on Ventura Boulevard in Encino — only twenty minutes’ drive from the Yachtsman, but not a place where he was at all likely to run into Megan."