Green’s Dictionary of Slang

an embarrassment, an embarrassing situation.

1834		‘An Out-And-Out Riddle’ in Flash Chaunter 42: It’s known by so many names, and made such a hack, / And lately it’s been called, they say, the funny Magic Crack!
1855		T. Haliburton Nature and Human Nature II 41: Oh, warn’t she brought to a hack!