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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:

1. be about

Familiarity information: MESS ABOUT used as a verb is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• MESS ABOUT (verb)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Be about

Classified under:

Verbs of being, having, spatial relations

Synonyms:

footle; mill around; mill about; mess about; lollygag; loiter; lallygag; hang around; tarry; loaf; lounge; lurk; linger

Context examples:

The high school students like to loiter in the Central Square / 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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