mess around

About 0.17 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. verb To fiddle idly.

   The kids sat there messing around with leaves and blades of grass because they were bored.

2. verb To joke, kid, or play.

   Hey, don't take it personally. I was only messing around.

3. verb To have a sexual relationship, especially one which is noncommittal.

   Rumor has it that he's messing around with his secretary.

4. verb To dance.

Similar words

muck around monkey around putter tinker potter monkey fiddle around fiddle about futz around mess about

Word family

messed around messes around messing around