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Muck about

verb, slang

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Verb
  1. 1
    To do random unplanned work or spend time idly informal, intransitive

    "Stop mucking about and get on with your work!"

  2. 2
    do random, unplanned work or activities or spend time idly wordnet
  3. 3
    To attempt to do something with a piece of equipment without understanding how it works. informal, intransitive

    "Don't muck about with the video machine, or you might break it."

  4. 4
    To be playful; full of fun and high spirits; to treat a situation unseriously. Australia, British, informal, intransitive

    "It was only a joke. We were only mucking about."

  5. 5
    To play with; to toy with; to waste the time of (a person). transitive

    "Then he started stalling. In the end he mucked me about so much that I lost my patience and decided to nick the books from him."

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