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Mess about   /mɛs əbˈaʊt/   Listen
Mess about

verb
1.
Be about.  Synonyms: footle, hang around, lallygag, linger, loaf, loiter, lollygag, lounge, lurk, mill about, mill around, tarry.  "Who is this man that is hanging around the department?"





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"Mess about" Quotes from Famous Books



... can understand ordinary Irishmen rushing into a European row for the row's sake, just because they haven't got a civil war to mess about in. But you—of all Irishmen—why on earth should you be ...
— The Tree of Heaven • May Sinclair


Words linked to "Mess about" :   prowl, be, lurch


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