hassle

Plural: hassles

Noun

• an angry disturbance
• disorderly fighting
• Trouble, bother, unwanted annoyances or problems.
• A fight or argument.
• An action which is not worth the difficulty involved.

Verb

Verb Forms: hassled, hassling, hassles

• To annoy or bother, or to engage in a dispute.
• annoy continually or chronically
• To trouble, to bother, to annoy.
• To pick a fight or start an argument with.
• To work through something troublesome; to be bothered by.
• To engage in a mock dogfight.

Adj

• hassling; hasslesome

Examples

• He tried not to HASSLE his opponent, but a strategic block was necessary.
• I went through a lot of hassle to be the first to get a ticket.
• If you don't want to hassle through converting formats, you'll have to stick with one program.
• The unlucky boy was hassled by a gang of troublemakers on his way home.

Synonyms

beset, bother, chevvy, chevy, chivvy, chivy, dogfight, fuss, harass, harry, molest, plague, provoke, rough-and-tumble, scuffle, trouble, tussle, Idioms:, aggravate, annoy, antagonize, bedevil, boil someone's piss, botherate, bug, burn up, chap someone's hide, cheese off, devil, disgruntle, disturb, exasperate, frustrate, get, get on someone's nerves, get on someone's tits, get on someone's wick, get someone's Irish up, get someone's back up, get someone's dander up, get someone's goat, get someone's nanny, get someone's nanny-goat, get under one's goat, get up, give someone the shits, grate, grind, grind one's gears, grotch, hack off, harsh one's mellow, hassle, irk, irritate, jazz, look for trouble, mommick, nark, pee off, peeve, persecute, pick a quarrel, pique, piss off, put someone's back up, raise someone's hackles, rankle, rile, rile up, roil, rub someone the wrong way, rub up the wrong way, ruffle, ruffle someone's feathers, sting, storm, tee off, test someone's patience, tick off, torque off, try one's patience, vex, wind up

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