英和和英

動詞

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.
   • 1971, Jay Williams, chapter 5, in The Hawkstone‎, 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, 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:

     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.

   Synonym: hack about