hack off

verb

1. informal,  (tr; often passive) to annoy, irritate, or disappoint

Example Sentences

“Then you hack off the stem, save that to eat later, and paint it black and white.”

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Then the demon actually appears and convinces Sumi to hack off a chunk of the leg and serve it to her dad in a Sweeney Todd-style curry.

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“It doesn’t bother him to go deep into counts — he’s gonna get that same A hack off,” Maddon said.

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He’s gonna get that same A hack off, and he’s going to normally lay off the bad pitches and swing at the good ones, and that’s what he did tonight.”

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The brutality came from within and it’s hard to hack off part of an infected limb or cut out a cancer without causing even more damage to the whole.

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Related Words

• disturb 
• exasperate 
• gall 
• irk 
• irritate 
• rile 
• vex