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fool around

verb as in waste time

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What kind of bullpen fools around with an eight-run lead, as the Dodgers reliever did Tuesday night when threatening to ruin everything?

Composers were fooling around with repetition, drones, tape loops and the like.

Pashinyan has also attacked other senior clergymen, including accusing one archbishop of having an affair, with the extraordinary allegation of "fooling around" with his uncle's wife.

From BBC

They fooled around briefly with different group names and pop-rock styles until Dennis came up with the idea of doing a song about surfing.

It's only been two and a half weeks and they've already accessed the Treasury Department and are fooling around with the computer system that pays America's bills.

From Salon

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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