hack around
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.04 in modern English
20
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
2
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "“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?”"
- "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."
- "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."
Usage
- American usage
- Intransitive verb