Definition
To annoy, distress, or anger.
Origins
Possibly an alteration of tick off. Metaphorical use of mechanical verbs (including torque, jack, and grind) with people and their emotions as the direct object is also seen elsewhere, as with for example torque up, grind one's gears, and jacked up.
In Context
- "It is hard to remember a talented player who so comprehensively bothered, annoyed, outraged and just plain torqued off the customers quite like Owens."
Also Said As
- cheese off
- pee off
- piss off
- tee off
- tick off
- aggravate
- annoy
- nettle
- rankle
- ruffle
- sting
- antagonize
- bother
- disgruntle
- botherate
- bug
- get
- grate
- burn up
- bedevil
- cheese off
- devil
- exasperate
- frustrate
- get up
- grotch
- hack off
- hassle
- irk
- irritate
- jazz
- molest
- mommick
- nark
- nerve
- pee off
- peeve
- persecute
- pique
- piss off
- provoke
- rile
- rile up
- roil
- storm
- test someone's patience
- tick off
- trouble
- try one's patience
- vex
- wind up
- Idioms:
- boil someone's piss
- chap someone's hide
- get on someone's nerves
- get on someone's tits
- get on someone's wick
- get someone's back up
- get someone's dander up
- get someone's goat
- get someone's Irish up
- get someone's nanny
- get someone's nanny-goat
- get under one's goat
- get under someone's skin
- give someone the shits
- grind one's gears
- harsh one's mellow
- put someone's back up
- raise someone's hackles
- rub someone the wrong way
- rub up the wrong way
- ruffle someone's feathers
- tee off
- torque off