hack off
phrasal verb
hacked off; hacking off; hacks off
1
: to cut (something) off in a rough and violent way
She used an ax to hack the dead branch off (the tree).
2
informal
: to make (someone) angry and annoyed
It really hacks me off to see people treated so unfairly.
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And Paramount’s swords-and-sandals epic, Gladiator II, continued to overcome its mixed reviews and wild historical incongruities to hack off $111.2 million at the domestic box office ($320 million globally), already ranking it among director Ridley Scott’s most lucrative films.
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Chris Lee, Vulture, 2 Dec. 2024
After her 17-year-old daughter was found drowned in a shallow body of water, her waist-length auburn hair hacked off and a 100-lb. log over her body, Irene Avila took comfort in the company of her daughter’s best friend, sharing in their mutual grief.
—Emily Palmer, People.com, 3 Nov. 2024
On almost every afternoon of his Southern California childhood, Freddie Freeman would get picked up from school by his father, Fred, bring a bucket of exactly 48 baseballs to a field near their house, then take an hour of hacks off balls Fred flipped to him.
—Jack Harris, Los Angeles Times, 26 Oct. 2024
But Titus admires the smaller man’s spirit and determination, up to and including the tough and frankly brutal decision to hack off one of his comrades’ legs to free himself from a chain.
—Sean T. Collins, Vulture, 18 July 2024
If these numbers were actually filmed in full, hacking off their final bars might’ve cut the total runtime, but at the cost of vexing audiences even further.
—Ashley Lee, Los Angeles Times, 7 Oct. 2024
Ten of my relatives are standing on asphalt, surrounding the trunk, and one of them is hacking off its limbs.
—TIME, 13 Feb. 2024
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Chris Lee, Vulture, 2 Dec. 2024
After her 17-year-old daughter was found drowned in a shallow body of water, her waist-length auburn hair hacked off and a 100-lb. log over her body, Irene Avila took comfort in the company of her daughter’s best friend, sharing in their mutual grief.
—Emily Palmer, People.com, 3 Nov. 2024
On almost every afternoon of his Southern California childhood, Freddie Freeman would get picked up from school by his father, Fred, bring a bucket of exactly 48 baseballs to a field near their house, then take an hour of hacks off balls Fred flipped to him.
—Jack Harris, Los Angeles Times, 26 Oct. 2024
But Titus admires the smaller man’s spirit and determination, up to and including the tough and frankly brutal decision to hack off one of his comrades’ legs to free himself from a chain.
—Sean T. Collins, Vulture, 18 July 2024
If these numbers were actually filmed in full, hacking off their final bars might’ve cut the total runtime, but at the cost of vexing audiences even further.
—Ashley Lee, Los Angeles Times, 7 Oct. 2024
Ten of my relatives are standing on asphalt, surrounding the trunk, and one of them is hacking off its limbs.
—TIME, 13 Feb. 2024
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“Hack off.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hack%20off. Accessed 15 Dec. 2024.
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