Definitions
Wiktionary
- v. idiomatic To fiddle idly.
- v. idiomatic To joke, kid, or play.
- v. idiomatic To have a sexual relationship, especially one which is non-commital.
WordNet 3.0
- v. do random, unplanned work or activities or spend time idly
Examples
“I don’t want to mess around and end up on Ms. Lonnie’s bad side.”
“And I don't mess around with second-class citizens like the Banyamulenge here either, oh no!”
“I kiss some, mess around with others, all the while wondering when they will discover that I’m not who they thought I was, that I’m a screwed-up, broken, not-very-pretty person with horrible afflictions and a much more beautiful sister.”
Simon & Schuster: Everything I Needed to Know About Being a Girl I Learned from Judy Blume
“Soon as my choppers get here, we're going to show ` em what it means to mess around with Americans.”
“A pissed-off house sprite was nobody to mess around with.”
“The idea of having a baby scares her spitless, and besides, she doesn't want all the mess around the house, like rubber boats and gates.”
Lists
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UK - slang
chin wag, arse about, bollock, starkers, sweet Fanny Adams, skive, shufti, codswallop, rhyming slang, bollocks, nookie, skew-whiff and 208 more...
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phrasal verbs: ABOUT, AROUND
bandy about, fool around, monkey around, pass around, mess around, send around, boss around, boss about, run about, screw around, hang around, shop around and 4 more...
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