“Are You?” (R U?): question shouted by the pack to FRBs, meaning “Are you on the trail?”
“Back Check” (BC): trail mark indicating that runners should turn around and retrace their path while looking for the 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
“Beer Check”: 1) beverage stop; 2) trail mark* indicating a beverage stop
“Chalk Talk”: trail instructions for virgin or visiting hashers
“Check”: trail mark indicating an intersection where the 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
“Circle”: an assembly of hashers at trail’s end, normally for the purpose of conducting down-downs
“C-word”: euphemism for “competition” or “competitive”
“Dead Fucking Last” (DFL)”: last member of the pack to finish the trail, sometimes honoured during down-downs (though this goes against the grain of hashing’s “non-competitive” ethos)
“Down-Down”: the ceremony of quaffing a beverage (an honour)
“Down-Downs”: the ceremony of honouring deserving hashers after the trail
“Front Running Bastard” (FRB): a faster member of the pack, also the one member of the pack who finishes trail first (and is normally “honoured” for same, since one should not be competitive)
“Hare”: hasher who lays the trail
“Hash Hymns”: Songs, typically scurrilous, silly, obscene, childish or all of the above; usually sung during Circle and for Down-Downs
“Harrier and Harriet”: male and female hashers
“Long-Cutting Bastard” (LCB): 1) slower member of the pack; 2) someone who gets horribly lost and comes in late
“M-word”: euphemism for “marathon”
“On-Back”: shouted by FRBs to the pack when FRBs encounter a back check
“On-In”: 1) trail’s end, 2) trail mark indicating proximity to end
“On-Off”: start of the trail
“On-On”: 1) shouted by FRBs or hounds to indicate they’re on the trail, sometimes used only to indicate true trail; 2) trail mark in lieu of a true trail arrow
“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
“Pack”: hashers in pursuit of the hare, also Hounds
“Respect”: a reverential attitude of right-thinking pack members toward the GM during the circle and down-downs
“R-word”: euphemism for “race,” “run,” or “rule”
“Shitty”: an adjective used to describe a really good trail
“Short-Cutting”: the act of attempting to short-cut the trail
“Short-Cutting Bastard” (SCB): habitual short-cutter, a title of esteem in most hashes
“Violation”: any infraction of hash etiquette or tradition, on- or off-trail; since thinking is against the rules, these usually begin with “In my opinion …” or “It’s blatantly clear that …”
“Violator”: he or she who must be punished, normally by down-down
“Virgin”: first-time hasher; also applied to first-time hare.
The above information was blatantly stolen from Minneapolis H3 and Bellingham Hash House Harriers. For a more extensive dictionary check out their pages, we’re too drunk to type anymore.
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