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fuck around

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fuck around (third-person singular simple present fucks around, present participle fucking around, simple past and past participle fucked around)

  1. (slang, vulgar) To fritter aimlessly or distractedly, to procrastinate, to waste time.
    Quit fucking around and get back to work!
    Stop fucking around! Just get a move on!
    Would you ever not fuck around in the utility van?
    If you fucked around at the waiting line, you have to remain still.
    Usually someone fucks around for distractions of a reaction they saw.
  2. (slang, vulgar) To fool around.
    He was just fucking around.
    Looks that I fuck around for anything.
    No one fucks around with the basement.
    Fucked around at the party? You better leave now or it'll get worse!
    • 1997, George Carlin, Brain Droppings[1], New York: Hyperion Books, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 179:
      Also, as far as kicking someone when he's down is concerned, what is the problem here? Again, the object is to win, yes? Well, if he gets up, you might lose; therefore he must not get up. He needs to be kicked. You said you wanted to win. Or are you people just fucking around? I suspect that might be the case. Well, stop fucking around and make up your mind.
  3. (slang, vulgar, rare) To have sex with many partners.
    After the breakup, she made the most of being single and fucked around.
    • 1987 August 15, Laurie Sherman, “What's A Dyke To Do? A Lesbian Reluctantly Enters The Age Of Safe Sex”, in Gay Community News, volume 15, number 5, page 8:
      I sat in a sauna soon after, perusing a sexy fellow athlete who fucks around a lot and who had made it clear she could be seduced.
  4. (slang, vulgar) To horseplay, joke around, behave immaturely or irresponsibly

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