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hacking around

hacking around is the present participle and gerund of hack around.

Meaning of hack around

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.
    • “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
    Synonyms:
    hack about

Questions about hacking around

What is hacking around the present participle and gerund of?
Hacking around is the present participle and gerund of hack around.

Words near hacking around in the dictionary

  1. hackies
  2. hackiest
  3. hackily
  4. hackiness
  5. hacking
  6. hacking around
  7. hacking away
  8. hacking cough
  9. hacking coughs
  10. hacking it
  11. hacking off

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