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Meanings of mess around in English

Do random, unplanned work or activities or spend time idly.

      To waste time doing something without a particular purpose.

            Synonyms
            Examples for "monkey"
            Examples for "monkey"
            1
            He took the child away and put the monkey in its place.
            Moorish Literature / Comprising Romantic Ballads, Tales of the B...
            2
            We must go lower down in the animal scale, to the monkey.
            Revolution, and Other Essays
            3
            Soon the monkey learned how to sell wild chickens in the market.
            Filipino Popular Tales
            4
            The monkey climbed to the roof of the house and sat there.
            Moorish Literature / Comprising Romantic Ballads, Tales of the B...
            5
            Albert became waterboy; Earl was powder monkey, in charge of all blasting.
            The Life of Me: An Autobiography
            1
            In the register of the potter's field I shall soon have both.
            Can Such Things Be?
            2
            The ancient potter employed woven fabrics in handling, finishing, and decorating pottery.
            Prehistoric Textile Art of Eastern United States / Thirteenth An...
            3
            For a while the Quarantine Commission had charge of the potter's fields.
            Winter’s Tale
            4
            He wouldn't potter about in a garden excavating the pedestals of statues.
            The Man Who Knew Too Much
            5
            And now it will be broken in pieces like a potter's vessel.
            The Lions of the Lord: A Tale of the Old West
            1
            A few days earlier, Taborlin had met a tinker on the road.
            The Name of the Wind
            2
            Could be one of the children that came with that tinker family.
            Servant of a dark god
            3
            If there had been a massacre the tinker would certainly have heard.
            The Name of the Wind
            4
            Yesterday Prime Minister Scott Morrison vowed he would never tinker with superannuation.
            News.com.au
            5
            They all tinker with our sense of time, space, and one another.
            Wired
            1
            Tick tock, the time is nigh for advocates of the long putter.
            The Irish Times
            2
            A lot of that I learned through putting with a longer putter.
            The Guardian
            3
            She laid down the putter and fingered the balls for a moment.
            The Ashiel mystery: A Detective Story
            4
            We putter around in an aimless sort of way and get nowhere.
            The Peace Negotiations: A Personal Narrative
            5
            On his game he is long and straight and a nerveless putter.
            The Guardian
            1
            We don't want to stop to monkey around in the dark.
            The Winning of Barbara Worth
            2
            And I suppose you can, for you always liked to monkey around with words.
            Hunters Out of Space
            3
            I'd heap rather sleep in the bed with a rattler than monkey around with conjur.
            God’s Little Acre
            4
            One of the always wore a live monkey around the neck instead of a fur piece.
            The new yorker
            5
            However badly we may do it, patriotism demands that we monkey around with a garden of our own.
            Mince Pie
            1
            This ancient world was just too dangerous to muck about in.
            James Potter and the Curse of the Gatekeeper
            2
            I mean you can only muck about so much can't you?
            The Ultimate Hitchhiker’s Guide
            3
            He was feeling the icy muck about his numbed legs.
            The Wrong Twin
            4
            He just wanted to blast them at the net or muck about playing keepy-uppy.
            The Guardian
            5
            Such as flushing out prey so that I needn't muck about in such filth.
            When darkness comes
            1
            Scattered in the muck around it she'd seen lumps of calcium carbonate: chalk.
            Seveneves
            2
            Necromancy is the practice of using magic to muck around with dead things.
            Dead beat
            3
            When it comes to jaw-dropping beaches -Australia doesn't muck around.
            News.com.au
            4
            Once I'd popped the question Kate didn't muck around.
            After the fall
            5
            She got off on it, happy to muck around in the trash, the wet squelch.
            The Girls
            Usage of mess around in English
            1
            The health and safety rules are not something you mess around with.
            The South African
            2
            Don't mess around trying to save money by making the product cheaper.
            NY Magazine
            3
            Toward the end, Luther let me mess around on my off hours.
            Commuters: a novel
            4
            I go home now, mess around, listen to music, make some clothes.
            A singular man
            5
            Morgan, I don't think we can mess around too much over there.
            The talisman
            6
            But if you make a mess around the sink, clean it up.
            Is it just me?: or is it nuts out there?
            7
            We just go to the kitchen and mess around a little bit.
            Reuters
            8
            But this comes back to burn him and Angie doesn't mess around.
            News.com.au
            9
            Jess doesn't mess around with anyone, because she likes having a boyfriend.
            Something wicked
            10
            Munster, therefore, is not a place in which to mess around.
            The Irish Times
            11
            He didn't want to give him a chance to mess around with evidence.
            Damaged
            12
            We can be in Florida this time tomorrow if we don't mess around.
            Heart-shaped box
            13
            When I'm not on camera, I look a hot mess around my house!
            Ebony
            14
            Pesangas had mastered the art of the silent approach-andthey didn't mess around.
            Aspho Fields
            15
            But now was not the time to mess around being experimental.
            The Great Book of Amber
            16
            We don't make enough money for them to mess around with.
            Consent to kill: a thriller
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            Mess around through the time
            Mess around across language varieties
            United States of America
            Common
            United Kingdom
            Less common