muck around

  • 1muck around — (with (something)) to do something without a serious purpose. Why was she mucking around in such a risky neighborhood? I kept working on this text until I thought it was good, and then I tried not to muck around with it anymore …

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  • 2muck around — (in BRIT, also use muck about) 1) PHRASAL VERB If you muck around or muck about, you behave in a childish or silly way, often so that you waste your time and fail to achieve anything. [mainly BRIT, INFORMAL] [V P] We do not want people of his age …

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  • 3muck around — phrasal verb muck about or muck around Word forms muck about : present tense I/you/we/they muck about he/she/it mucks about present participle mucking about past tense mucked about past participle mucked about British informal 1) [intransitive]… …

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  • 4muck around with something — muck around (with (something)) to do something without a serious purpose. Why was she mucking around in such a risky neighborhood? I kept working on this text until I thought it was good, and then I tried not to muck around with it anymore …

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  • 5muck around with — muck around (with (something)) to do something without a serious purpose. Why was she mucking around in such a risky neighborhood? I kept working on this text until I thought it was good, and then I tried not to muck around with it anymore …

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  • 6muck around — verb do random, unplanned work or activities or spend time idly The old lady is usually mucking about in her little house • Syn: ↑putter, ↑mess around, ↑potter, ↑tinker, ↑monkey, ↑monkey around, ↑muck about …

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  • 7muck around — verb Means the same as muck about …

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  • 8Muck around — play around in a way that others generally don t like …

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  • 9muck around — Australian Slang play around in a way that others generally don t like …

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  • 10muck around with something — ˌmuck aˈbout/aˈround with sth derived (BrE, informal, disapproving) to do sth, especially to a machine, so that it does not work correctly Syn: ↑mess about …

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