hate, the n.
(US campus) something unpleasant.
![[US]](/static/img/flags/us.png "United States") | Campus Sl. Nov. 3: the hate – an unfortunate circumstance: ‘Two papers and a test in one week is the hate’. |
SE in slang uses
In phrases
(US) to become extremely angry.
| in Sweet Daddy 48: The other one would get a hate on. |
(Aus./US) to dislike intensely; to be extremely angry.
![[Aus]](/static/img/flags/aus.png "Australia") | Register (Adelaide) 31 May 5/3: They have a hate on America in Aussie. They have a hate on Americans. They growl at us 40 times a day. They call us ail the names they can lay to mind. | |
| Age (Melbourne) 22 May 7/4: Your lads in Tobruk have a real hate on now that Jerry has twice deliberately bombed hospital ships and killed Australian wounded. | |
| Northern Star (Lismore, NSW) 28 Feb. 1/5: The Germans seem to have a particular hate against us lawyers [...] The Inner Temple was badly hit, and Gray’s Inn and Lincoln’s Inn also caught it. | |
| News (Adelaide) 2 Dec. 24/1: in one burst, when he [a batsman] shot from 60 to 85, he seemed to have a private hate on the pickets on the stand fence. | |
| Do or Die (1992) 257: Makes you wonder what would happen if some ’banger with a hate on got his hands on a nuclear device. |