hack around

hack around

English

Verb

hack around (third-person singular simple present hacks around, present participle hacking around, simple past and past participle hacked around)

  1. (US, intransitive) To be idle; to waste time; to socialize.
    Synonym: hack about
    • 1971, Jay Williams, chapter 5, in The Hawkstone‎[1], page 45:
      “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?”
    • 1993, David Boyd, Looking for a Hero‎[2], page 96:
      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.
    • 2016, Luke Rhinehart, chapter 1, in Invasion‎[3]:
      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.
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