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.

Examples of hack off in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Don't let the lawn get so long that you're tempted to hack off several inches of grass and damage your turf. —Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 21 Mar. 2025

In his pursuit to find the one who killed Hector Ayala (Kamar de los Reyes) with a bullet emblazoned with the Punisher's skull insignia, Charlie Cox's blind attorney tracks down the Punisher himself — who nearly hacks off his head with an axe. —Nick Romano, EW.com, 19 Mar. 2025

The butcher hacks off the cuts, dices them on a block and pops them into a black plastic bag that hides the meat. —Omkar Khandekar, NPR, 15 Dec. 2024

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. —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

Rhymes for hack off

• ashraf
• checkoff
• cutoff
• falloff
• handoff
• kickoff
• layoff
• liftoff
• markoff
• markov
• payoff
• playoff