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hassle
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
hassle
I.noun
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ An experienced real estate agent will be able to avoid legal hassles.
▪ Buy Christmas presents early, and avoid the hassles of December shopping.
▪ Byrd says he settled the claim to avoid legal hassles.
▪ Driving downtown is just too much hassle.
▪ I don't want to organize a big party - it's too much hassle.
▪ Shopping by mail avoids the hassles of crowded stores at Christmastime.
▪ The airline doesn't make seat assignments, which can be a hassle for travelers, but it saves money.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Avoid hassle by using this site to e-mail several estate agents and let them do all the work.
▪ Every move requires a person to take the time and fight the hassle to register to vote.
▪ Her biggest hassle is deciding which client to bill her hours to.
▪ I was still handed a second to cause me extra hassle.
▪ In addition to the hassle, lost receipts can mean lost deductions.
▪ It sure saves all that hassle of getting to know and understand him.
▪ This is how Ovation do it, and it certainly means less hassle when it comes to changing strings.
▪ Too much of a hassle to use both toothpaste and mouthwash?
II.verb
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
criticize/nag/hassle sb up one side and down the other
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ A homeless man was hassling motorists at the traffic lights.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ And goodness knows I get tired, irritable and hassled by my children's demands.
▪ And I am not going to hassle him over his choices because it's his neck on the line.
▪ Are you just going to hassle me?
▪ None the less, Wood said he has destroyed all of Mary Lou's tapes to ensure that she will not be further hassled.
▪ Perhaps, while she hassled, she managed to forget Montaine for a few hours.
▪ Thieving, fighting, hassling the locals.
▪ We should not hassle it with its shortcomings at every juncture.
▪ We were often hassled by the neighbours and occasionally by the police.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
hassle

hassle \hassle\ n.

  1. An inconvenience caused by difficulties encountered trying to accomplish a task; as, finding a parking place in midtown is always a hassle.

    Syn: fuss, trouble, bother.

  2. disorderly fighting; an angry dispute or disturbance.

    Syn: hassle, scuffle, tussle, rough-and-tumble.

hassle

hassle \hassle\ v. i.

  1. to dispute or quarrel, often over petty disagreements.

  2. To expend excessive time and energy trying to accomplish a task.

hassle

hassle \hassle\ v. t. to repeatedly annoy; as, He is known to hassle his staff when he is overworked.

Syn: harass, harry, chivy, chivvy, chevy, chevvy, beset, plague, molest, provoke.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
hassle

1945, American English, perhaps from U.S. Southern dialectal hassle "to pant, breathe noisily" (1928), of unknown origin; or perhaps from hatchel "to harass" (1800), which may be a variant of hazel, the name of the plant that furnished switches for whippings. Noted in 1946 as a show biz vogue word.

hassle

1951, from hassle (n.). Related: Hassled; hassling.

Wiktionary
hassle

n. 1 trouble, bother, unwanted annoyances or problems. 2 A fight or argument. 3 An action which is not worth the difficulty involved. vb. 1 To trouble, to bother, to annoy. 2 To pick a fight or start an argument.

WordNet
hassle
  1. n. an angry disturbance; "he didn't want to make a fuss"; "they had labor trouble"; "a spot of bother" [syn: fuss, trouble, bother]

  2. disorderly fighting [syn: scuffle, tussle, dogfingt, rough-and-tumble]

  3. v. annoy continually or chronically; "He is known to harry his staff when he is overworked"; "This man harasses his female co-workers" [syn: harass, harry, chivy, chivvy, chevy, chevvy, beset, plague, molest, provoke]

Wikipedia
Hassle (album)

Hassle is the debut album by the Swedish pop singer Erik Hassle. The album was released on August 19, 2009 in Sweden, and features the top 30 singles " Hurtful" and "Don't Bring Flowers". The album peaked at number 2 on the Swedish album charts.

Hassle

Hassle is a location in Närke, Sweden, where a Celtic treasure was found in 1936.

The treasure comprises a large bronze cauldron which contained two Bronze Age swords of the Hallstatt type, a pommel of bronze, two bronze buckets with ciste a cordoni, two small hooks of bronze and twelve large circular bronze plates with fittings of iron. All of the items were imported.

The cauldron belongs to a special kind of cultic cauldrons usually found in Italy and Greece, while the buckets are of a kind found in southern and central Europe.

Usage examples of "hassle".

Perhaps if Issle knew the truth, the girl would hesitate before hassling her again.

While imbibing, he found several of the top sergeants of the tanker battalion and promised them invitations to a jungle juice party in order to ensure there would be no hassle with getting the drivers Junkman and Mop recruited in to sick call the next morning.

Added to that was the hassle of cajoling, browbeating or begging suppliers for their customer lists.

Israelis into Cuba, to deal with all that political hassle on top of the whole Shastri and technical thing.

Frankly, I could do without the hassle of charging you, Miss Brannigan, but you make it very tempting.

Then when they tried to get me to paddle my board out to hassle some longline tuna boats, I ran away and joined the navy.

His father had been a pastor while Hank was growing up, and the two of them had lived through a great many glories and hassles, the kind that come with pioneering churches, pastoring, itinerating.

Some pilots or traders end up in legal hassles a port or two down link.

I was putting in the hours who needed the hassle but he kept working on me telling me I was the smartest D.

The little white boy hassling the doorman at the B Street crackhouse when we showed took one look at Piss and shit, he nearly pissed his pants.

My clearance was not granted, but I was never hassled about it -- and instead of being sent to a top-secret radar installation near the Arctic Circle, I was passed over for promotion and placed in a job as sports editor of a base newspaper on the Gulf Coast of Florida.

Mexico perhaps twenty times before in his life and had never been hassled going in.

And his having one saves me the trouble of hassling with the airlines, going through the locals for permissions, all that.

The crack house still thrived, the police were still uncooperative, and his neighbors were unwilling to batter through their walls of inertia and distrust even though the daily hassles and shakedowns had grown intolerable.

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