Usage of "fool around"

Portuguese

Spanish

Indulge in horseplay.

Spanish

Commit adultery.

Usage of fool around in English

Miles wasn't going to fool around with any of that street garbage. 
 Terminal Compromise 

Besides, I haven't any time to fool around looking for an island. 
 Bob the Castaway; Or, The Wreck of the Eagle 

I fool around a lot too, but I don't go on vacations. 
 100 New Yorkers of the 1970s 

D' you think I'd fool around with one of these swell dudes? 
 Out of the Primitive 

Oh, well, he and Dad could fool around down in the range. 
 The Best Made Plans 

If you fool around down there, he'll-he'll-he'lljustabout wear you out. 
 Reed Anthony, Cowman: An Autobiography 

Tom, I don't like to fool around much where there's dead people. 
 The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Complete 

Never say you don't drink or fool around because it's morally wrong. 
 Priceless: how I went undercover to rescue the world's stolen tr... 

Now didn't seem like the time to fool around with unfamiliar weapons. 
 Rot & ruin 

What good was a Saturday if you didn't get to fool around? 
 Public secrets 

The trouble is he'd rather fool around. She blushed and he laughed. 
 Full circle 

Because he didn't think anyone else would fool around with the Duff? 
 The Duff 

They go to Vanessa's garage and fool around in her mother's Buick. 
 The new yorker 

They want to run about and fool around an get by. 
 Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States... 

I bet he won't care to fool around the works again. 
 Tom Swift and His Electric Locomotive; Or, Two Miles a Minute on... 

And don't you fool around any, because he'll want to know the news. 
 The Entire Project Gutenberg Works of Mark Twain 

fool

Verb

Adverb

Translations for fool around

Portuguese

Spanish

Fool around through the time

Fool around across language varieties

United States of America

Common

United Kingdom

Less common

Meanings of fool around in English