Green’s Dictionary of Slang

1. (US campus) to try to seduce someone.

1989

J. Doyle College Sl. Dict. 🌐 torque [Purdue] to hit on someone.

2. (also torque off) to annoy, to ‘wind up’.

1988

in D. & C. Schneider Sound Off! 169: A lieutenant colonel described a case that ‘really torques me off.’.