hack about
(UK, colloquial, intransitive) To be idle; to waste time; to socialize.
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(UK, colloquial, intransitive) To be idle; to waste time; to socialize.
“So Madam has taken Miss amongst the Parlez-vous! By Jove, if she had been my wife, she should have trained the filly at home. She’ll run none the better for all this hacking about.”
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(UK, transitive) To disfigure or damage by hacking; to cover with cuts.
What a frightfully spotty blouse! He could not think where he had seen it. Then he remembered that it was Lilia’s. She had brought it “to hack about in” at Sawston, and had taken it to Italy beacuse “in Italy anything does.”
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