has·sle

(hăs′əl) Informal

1. An argument or a fight.

2. Trouble; bother.

v. has·sled, has·sling, has·sles

v.intr.

To argue or fight: customers hassling with merchants over high prices.

v.tr.

To bother or harass: street gangs hassling passersby.

[From American dialectal (Southeast) hassle, to pant (as from exertion), perhaps of imitative origin or akin to British dialectal hassle, to hack at, saw away at with a blunt blade.]

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hassled

adjective bothered, pressured, worried, stressed, under pressure, hounded, uptight, browbeaten, hunted, hot and bothered I'm feeling tired and hassled.

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