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lounge about

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Verb1.lounge about - be lazy or idle; "Her son is just bumming around all day"
bum about, bum around, frig around, fuck off, loaf, arse about, arse around, loll around, lounge around, waste one's time, bum, loll
laze, slug, idle, stagnate - be idle; exist in a changeless situation; "The old man sat and stagnated on his porch"; "He slugged in bed all morning"


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Why, they are the deadheads, the drones in the great hive, the street crowds that lounge about, gaping at those who are working.
Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow by Jerome, Jerome K. View in context
The bar is a large room with a stone floor, and there people stand and smoke, and lounge about, all the evening: dropping in and out as the humour takes them.
American Notes for General Circulation by Dickens, Charles View in context
Snagsby's being in his way rather a meditative and poetical man, loving to walk in Staple Inn in the summer-time and to observe how countrified the sparrows and the leaves are, also to lounge about the Rolls Yard of a Sunday afternoon and to remark (if in good spirits) that there were old times once and that you'd find a stone coffin or two now under that chapel, he'll be bound, if you was to dig for it.
Bleak House by Dickens, Charles View in context
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