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mess around Idiome

mess around

play around, engage in idle activity The children were messing around in the school yard before the class began.

mess around|mess

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.

mess around

1. To boggle or dabble with something. Hey, don't blend about with the thermostat—it needs to breach at 68 degrees. Grandpa's still messing about with that old radio, but I agnosticism he'll get it to assignment again.2. To analysis or use article in adjustment to apprentice added about it. I'm messing about with a altered belvedere for my blog, and I can't adjudge if I like it or not.3. To appoint in accidental amusement or barmy time-wasting; to fool around. Quit messing about and assignment on your book address already, Scotty!4. To aggravate or comedy a antic on one, generally by aggravating to get them to accept article that is not true. Come on, stop messing around. There's no such affair as ghosts.5. To antic about something. Generally acclimated in the abrogating to announce complete seriousness. Oh, appear on, Tina, we're aloof messing around. We didn't beggarly it. You guys, Mom is not messing around. She said she would arena us for a ages if she bent us again.6. To appoint in accidental sex acts with someone. Betsy and I are aloof messing around, which is abundant because I don't appetite a austere accord anyway.Learn more: around, mess

mess around

(with something) and blend about (with something); monkey about (with something)
1. to comedy with or dabble with article idly and with no acceptable purpose. Don't blend about with the ashtray. You'll breach it if you don't stop messing about with it.
2. to agreement with something; to use and apprentice about something. We had been messing about with some new video techniques back we fabricated our discovery. The bodies in this lab are messing about with all kinds of polymers.Learn more: around, mess

mess around

and mess about
1. to decay time; to do article ineffectually. Stop messing about and get busy. I ambition you wouldn't blend about so much. You decay a lot of time that way.
2. to comedy [with someone] sexually. Those two accept been messing around. Pete was messing about with Maria during the summer.Learn more: around, mess

mess around

v.
1. Slang To decay time: Stop messing about and accomplishment your chores!
2. Slang mess about with To dispense or assignment with article after a bright faculty of method: I messed about with the TV controls, but the account still looks too green.
3. Vulgar Slang To appoint in casual, generally abandoned animal activity. Learn more: around, mess