lollygagging

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He's all right with VIP lollygagging: If the client has four grand an hour, young Bayar has the wide-open sky, a topped-off fuel tank, and the whole starry night ahead.

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  • “But I'll have none of your lollygagging,” he added, glaring at Good-Foot through his cloud of cigarette smoke. —  TheMagazineofFantasyandScienceFiction,March2005
  • Four years of lollygagging public-private "standards committees" haven't fixed that. —  Marketplace
  • A grade school in Sweden had a problem: Their "playground" was really nothing more than a vast flat slab of asphalt -- better suited to prison inmates pumping iron than kids lollygagging and playing tag. —  Fast Company
  • While frigid grilling requires a slightly different mindset (no lollygagging over the meat with a beer here!), people aren't going to forsake their favorite cooking technique unless the grill lid is frozen shut. —  Berks county news
  • Julia and her daughters joked about a favorite family story: how Jen was born on Sullo's first day on the job, and he was lollygagging after work when Julia went into labor. —  The Milford Daily News Homepage RSS
 

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