FOOL AROUND Definition & Meaning

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fool around

Engage in flirting or casual sexual acts; also, engage in adultery. For example, He caught the two teenagers fooling around in the basement . [1830s]
Also, monkey around . Engage in idle or casual activity, putter. For example, Jim loved to fool around with his computer , or She was monkeying around with some figures in hopes of balancing the budget . [Second half of 1800s]
Engage in frivolous activity, waste time. For example, Instead of studying, he spends all his spare time fooling around . Also see fool away .

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It's only been two and a half weeks and they've already accessed the Treasury Department and are fooling around with the computer system that pays America's bills.

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Players were in a dorm room fooling around with a gun.

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“Why don’t you just fool around, continue to hug and kiss and touch and wait a few more years?”

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“I didn’t think we had time to fool around.”

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While “fooling around” with a body of photographs from 2010 — in color, as usual — she decided to flip them to black and white.

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