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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

hack around en · VERB

Meanings

  1. (US, intransitive) To be idle; to waste time; to socialize.
    • “Gosh! Just think, maybe we walked over him a couple of times when we were hacking around in the woods. Gives you a spooky feeling, doesn’t it?” 1971, Jay Williams, chapter 5, in The Hawkstone, page 45:
    • When Mom and Dad went back to work, I was mostly home alone again after school. Willy came over a lot and we just hacked around doing stuff—playing video games or tossing the football out back. 1993, David Boyd, Looking for a Hero, page 96:
    • I’m the boss and the guys know it. But they also know they can hack around a bit or take a ten-minute break without getting shouted at. In fact if they didn’t hack around a bit I’d never have hired them. 2016, Luke Rhinehart, chapter 1, in Invasion:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
hacked around Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
hacked around Tense=Past lexicographic
hacks around Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
hacking around Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic

Synonyms

hack about