play around (with someone or something)
- play around (with someone or something)
play around (with someone or something)
1. and
play about (with someone or something) to play and frolic with someone or something. •
Kelly likes to play around with the other kids.
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The boys are out in the yard, playing about with the neighbor girls.
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Will you kids stop playing about and get busy?
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Stop playing around and get busy!
2. Euph. to have a romantic or sexual affair with someone or persons in general. •
Kelly found out that her husband had been playing around with Susan.
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I can't believe that Roger is playing around!
Dictionary of American idioms.
2013.
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