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MESS ABOUT
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Dictionary entry overview: What does mess about mean?
• MESS ABOUT (verb)
The verb MESS ABOUT has 1 sense:
Familiarity information: MESS ABOUT used as a verb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Be about
Classified under:
Verbs of being, having, spatial relations
Synonyms:
footle; hang around; lallygag; linger; loaf; loiter; lollygag; lounge; lurk; mess about; mill about; mill around; tarry
Context example:
Who is this man that is hanging around the department?
Hypernyms (to "mess about" is one way to...):
be (have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun))
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "mess about"):
lurch; prowl (loiter about, with no apparent aim)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s PP
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