mess around
mess around
verbDefinition of MESS AROUND
intransitive verb
Examples of MESS AROUND
- <spent the vacation day just messing around>
- <a guy who goes to the health club mainly to mess around with the women>
First Known Use of MESS AROUND
1918
Related to MESS AROUND
Synonyms: doodle, fool around, fribble, goof (around), hang about [British], kick around, fiddle (around), monkey (around), play, potter (around), putter (around), trifle
Related Words: dally, dawdle, dillydally, hang (around or out), idle, loaf, loll, lounge; clown (around), horse around; diddle (with), tinker
Rhymes with MESS AROUND
aboveground, Afghan hound, all-around, battleground, been around, belowground, bottom round, breeding ground, bring around, cast around, common ground, decompound, dumping ground, end around, fool around, get around, go around, hang around, horse around, in the round, jerk around, kick around, middle ground, muscle-bound, Norton Sound, off the ground, on background, on the ground, outward-bound, paperbound, perfect-bound, proving ground, push around, quarter-bound, runaround, screw around, shootaround, sleep around, spiral-bound, staging ground, stand one's ground, steamship round, stick around, stomping ground, surround sound, turnaround, turn around, ultrasound, underground, weather-bound, work-around, wraparound
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