mess around

mess around
mess around & mess about
1. to waste time; to do something ineffectually. •

Stop messing around and get busy.

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I wish you wouldn't mess about so much. You waste a lot of time that way.

2. to play [with someone] sexually. •

Those two have been messing around.

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Pete was messing around with Maria during the summer.

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{v. phr.} 1. To engage in idle or purposeless activity. * /Come on, you guys, - start doing some work, don't just mess around all day!/ 2. {vulgar} To be promiscuous; to indulge in sex with little discrimination as to who the partner is. * /Allen needs straightening out; he's been messing around with the whole female population of his class./ Compare: FOOL AROUND.

Dictionary of American idioms. 2013.

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