Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. An argument or a fight.
- n. Trouble; bother.
- v. To argue or fight: customers hassling with merchants over high prices.
- v. To bother or harass: street gangs hassling passersby.
Wiktionary
- n. Trouble, bother, unwanted annoyances or problems.
- n. A fight or argument.
- n. An action which is not worth the difficulty involved.
- v. To trouble, to bother, to annoy.
- v. To pick a fight or start an argument.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. An inconvenience caused by difficulties encountered trying to accomplish a task.
- n. disorderly fighting; an angry dispute or disturbance.
- v. to dispute or quarrel, often over petty disagreements.
- v. To expend excessive time and energy trying to accomplish a task.
- v. to repeatedly annoy.
WordNet 3.0
- n. disorderly fighting
- v. annoy continually or chronically
- n. an angry disturbance
Etymologies
- Origin unknown.
Examples
“According to Webster’s New World Dictionary, the word hassle was coined in America.”
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“With PEX, all of this hassle is completely eliminated.”
“The Dallas injunction has stalled that move, however, and the 61-year-old may now just be wondering if the hassle is worth it.”
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“The hassle from a lost passport is much bigger then any hassle I have ever had from not having one on me.”
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“With Brand-yourself, much of the tedious technology guesswork/hassle is eliminated, freeing you to focus on the substance of your personal brand.”
“How much of a hassle is it to have to go in to recover that stuff?”
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“Do you save enough in hassle to justify the cost (especially when you have to buy out of an existing contract first)?”
“That way I won't get any hassle from the man about my music rights ... you know!”
“Come here to Ruralshire (or wherever), its dead easy, no hassle from the cops, not like home.”
“I know several people working under FM-3 visas and the hassle is not much at all.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘hassle’.
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CCle
all those wonderful Britsy words that end with a double consonant followed by 'le'
doddle, bobble, dibble, whiffle, waffle, diddle, piddle, jiggle, straggle, boggle, fiddle, skeedaddle and 122 more...
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Ruzuzu's Big Ass List
If you're looking for long s examples, see here.
ass, assess, asshole, basso profondo, basso profundo, crass, assay, mr. ass itch, compass, slag-ass macaroon, brass, class and 40 more...
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Kayo's list 2
Level 4 vocabulary
laugh, appropriciate, mole, squeal, escape, hassle, moody, description, weave
kayo to be annoying May 15, 2009
bilby "Carrying dope is not advisable, and although searching you is illegal, few pigs can read the Constitution. If you are carrying when the patrol car pulls up, tell them you are Kanadian and hitching through Amerika. Highway patrols are very uptight about promoting incidents with foreigners. The foreign bit goes over especially well with small-town types, and is also amazingly good for avoiding hassles with greasers. If you can't hack this one, tell them you are a reporter for a newspaper writing a feature story on hitching around the country. This story has averted many a bust."
- Abbie Hoffman, 'Steal This Book'. Feb 18, 2009
sonofgroucho Wouldn't life be wonderful if hassle could be abolished? Jan 29, 2008