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mess around
Meaning: If you're messing around, you're wasting time or behaving in a silly way.
Synonym: fool around, muck around (British, informal)For example:
- mess around My kids were messing around with a new computer game instead of doing their homework, so I told them to turn it off.
- mess around The manager told the workers to stop messing around and get on with their work.
Quick Quiz:
If a student spends a lot of time messing around in class, his teacher will probably be
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