fuck about
English
Pronunciation
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Verb
fuck about (third-person singular simple present fucks about, present participle fucking about, simple past and past participle fucked about)
- (vulgar, slang) To waste time with unimportant activities; often used as an admonition to urge the other party to stop wasting time.
- Synonyms: fuck around, dick around, faff about, faff around, fool around, mess about, mess around
- She's coming over in an hour, so until then I'll just fuck about on the Web.
- Don't fuck about! Hurry up and finish it.
- (vulgar, slang, intransitive) To play around (do silly or entertaining things; tinker).
- Synonyms: fuck around, dick around, fool around, mess about, mess around
- He was just fucking about.