"hack around" meaning in English

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    },
    {
      "form": "hacking around",
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        "participle",
        "present"
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    },
    {
      "form": "hacked around",
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        "participle",
        "past"
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    },
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      "form": "hacked around",
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        "past"
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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          "name": "American English",
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              75,
              89
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          "ref": "1971, Jay Williams, chapter 5, in The Hawkstone, page 45:",
          "text": "“Gosh! Just think, maybe we walked over him a couple of times when we were hacking around in the woods. Gives you a spooky feeling, doesn’t it?”",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
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              114,
              127
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          "ref": "1993, David Boyd, Looking for a Hero, page 96:",
          "text": "When Mom and Dad went back to work, I was mostly home alone again after school. Willy came over a lot and we just hacked around doing stuff—playing video games or tossing the football out back.",
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              63,
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          "ref": "2016, Luke Rhinehart, chapter 1, in Invasion:",
          "text": "I’m the boss and the guys know it. But they also know they can hack around a bit or take a ten-minute break without getting shouted at. In fact if they didn’t hack around a bit I’d never have hired them.",
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        }
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        "To be idle; to waste time; to socialize."
      ],
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        [
          "idle",
          "idle"
        ],
        [
          "waste time",
          "waste time"
        ],
        [
          "socialize",
          "socialize"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(US, intransitive) To be idle; to waste time; to socialize."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "hack about"
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      ],
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        "intransitive"
      ]
    }
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  "word": "hack around"
}

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    {
      "form": "hacks around",
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        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "hacking around",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "hacked around",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "hacked around",
      "tags": [
        "past"
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    }
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        "English terms with quotations",
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              75,
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          "ref": "1971, Jay Williams, chapter 5, in The Hawkstone, page 45:",
          "text": "“Gosh! Just think, maybe we walked over him a couple of times when we were hacking around in the woods. Gives you a spooky feeling, doesn’t it?”",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              114,
              127
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "1993, David Boyd, Looking for a Hero, page 96:",
          "text": "When Mom and Dad went back to work, I was mostly home alone again after school. Willy came over a lot and we just hacked around doing stuff—playing video games or tossing the football out back.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              63,
              74
            ],
            [
              159,
              170
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "2016, Luke Rhinehart, chapter 1, in Invasion:",
          "text": "I’m the boss and the guys know it. But they also know they can hack around a bit or take a ten-minute break without getting shouted at. In fact if they didn’t hack around a bit I’d never have hired them.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To be idle; to waste time; to socialize."
      ],
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        [
          "idle",
          "idle"
        ],
        [
          "waste time",
          "waste time"
        ],
        [
          "socialize",
          "socialize"
        ]
      ],
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        "(US, intransitive) To be idle; to waste time; to socialize."
      ],
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        {
          "word": "hack about"
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      ],
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  "word": "hack around"
}