hell around

hell around

slang To cause or get into trouble; to engage in unrestrained and excessively disruptive behavior. I started helling around as soon as I was in college and could do what I wanted, but I mellowed out after I graduated. The customer has been helling around about the service charge we included on his bill.
See also: around, hell
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

hell around

Sl. to go around making trouble or noise. Who are those kids who are out there helling around every night? They hell around because it's fun.
See also: around, hell
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.

hell around

in. to go around making trouble or noise. Who are those kids who are out there helling around every night?
See also: around, hell
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See also:
  • raise the devil
  • raise the dickens
  • raise
  • raise Cain
  • raise Cain, to
  • raise Cain/hell
  • Cain
  • lift/raise the roof
  • raise the roof
  • raise the roof, to
References in classic literature
"It's going to be fair hell around here--what was that?"
South Sea Tales
I am dreading running past Pendeen Lighthouse, It's going to be hell around there with all those hills.
Navy trainee's challenge before fatherhood
Let's face it, while you may not want to hunt from an off-road machine, they are handy as hell around deer camp, for hauling wood, planting small food plots, and doing general chores.
The ultimate hunting
A lumen has been opened: Like fireflies "lifting from the long grass / at dusk," the dead ancestors and "the heaven / hell around us" emerge from the darkness, "defying all we do not believe."
Kathleen O'Toole. Meanwhile: Poems by Kathleen O'Toole
However, Mephistopheles "carries Hell around with him like a private climate: he's in it and it's in him" (p.
Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth
"I can honestly say I felt the flames of Hell around me as Billy spoke.
SAVING SOULS IN SIN CITY; Legendary preacher Billy Graham's amazing crusade after Glasgow was branded most unholy place in Britain
Obviously, five years ago it would be hell around here, but five years ago I would be playing 35, maybe 40 minutes.
Cassell struggling as a sub
Now Gordon will feel heat like the hobs of hell around him.
Strachan tactics were good..just not good enough
Hassan's home life with wife Maysoon (Meriam Abbas) is fraught with tension, as his obsession with recording the hell around him conflicts with her neurotic need to stay inside their apartment.
Underexposure
'You go from running like hell around the pitch, tackling and smashing into people, then you have to compose yourself and hit a target.
Rugby Union: DON'T BLAME IT ON THE HOOKERWilliams' plea - give us a chance; Williams' plea - give us a chance
His primary-school innocence clearly destroyed by the hell around him, he went on: "You could see the blade shining in the light.
IN HELL'S PLAYGROUND Blade was flashed around at school; Shocking investigation reveals the true extent of lawlessness on murdered Damilola's doorstep
He said: ``The popular image is that the students are causing merry hell around here, but most of our students are very well behaved and most of our residents are very tolerant.
STUDENTS LIVING IN UNION; Harmony reigns in city's seat of learning
Despite the hell around him, he tries to keep his sense of humour.
How this slaughter of the innocents will haunt a Scots bobby for the rest of his life; Many of us came back and just cried
When resurrected Lazarus starts raising hell around town, someone has to pay.
Toto Who Lived Twice