C1 informal to spend time doing various things that are not important, without any particular purpose or plan浪费时间;磨蹭
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He spends all day messing around with the dogs instead of working.
Stop messing around watching the telly, and come and help me.
We spent the week messing around in the cottage.
I need to stop messing around and make some decisions.
to behave in a stupid or annoying way胡闹
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Immediately after she'd gone, the boys started to mess around.
The children were driving me mad by messing around all the time.
Stop messing around - I'm trying to be serious.
He spent all his time at school just messing around.
See also: mess around (with sb)
See also: mess sb about/around
See also: mess
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