mess_around has definitions from the field of work
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[ verb ] (work) do random, unplanned work or activities or spend time idly

Examples

"The old lady is usually mucking about in her little house"

Used in print

(Saturday Review...)

It is blind , fundamentalist dogmatism to say , `` Messing_around with the King_James_version seems to us a perilous sport at_best '' .

(Thomas Anderson, Here Comes Pete Now....)

He could n't afford to have anyone mess_around with them , he said .

Related terms

work puddle tinker putterer

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