Englishhassle informal
noun
1 parking in the city center is a hassle | the hassle of child care:
inconvenience, bother, nuisance, problem, struggle, difficulty, annoyance, irritation, thorn in one's flesh/side, bane of one's life;
trials and tribulations, fuss, trouble;
informal aggravation, aggro, stress, headache, pain, pain in the neck/backside;
North American, informal pain in the butt;
British, vulgar slang pain in the arse;
North American, vulgar slang pain in the ass.
2 North American you'd better not get into a hassle with that guy:
disagreement, quarrel, argument, dispute, altercation, squabble, wrangle, shouting match, difference of opinion, contretemps, falling-out, war of words;
fight, tussle, struggle, fracas, free-for-all, brawl;
Irish, , North American, , & Australian donnybrook;
informal tiff, set-to, run-in, spat, scrap, dust-up;
British, informal row, barney, slanging match, ding-dong, bust-up, bit of argy-bargy, ruck;
Scottish, informal rammy;
North American, informal rhubarb;
archaic broil, miff;
Scottish, archaic threap, collieshangie.
▷antonyms agreement.
verb
they were hassling him to pay up:
harass, pester, nag, go on at, keep on at, keep after, badger, hound, harry, harp on at, chivvy, trouble, bother, worry, torment, annoy, plague, bedevil, persecute;
informal bug, give someone a hard time, get in someone's hair, get on someone's case, get on someone's back, breathe down someone's neck;
Northern English mither;
North American, informal devil, ride;
Australian, New Zealand, informal heavy;
rare discommode.
▷antonyms leave in peace.