mess about

mess about or around

Verb

1. to pass the time doing trivial or silly things without any particular purpose or plan: messing about in boats

2. to interfere or meddle: you have no business messing around here

3. Chiefly US to engage in adultery

Thesaurus

Verb

1.

mess about - be about; "The high school students like to loiter in the Central Square"; "Who is this man that is hanging around the department?" footle, hang around, lallygag, loiter, lollygag, mill about, mill around, tarry, lounge, lurk, linger, loaf be - have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun); "John is rich"; "This is not a good answer" prowl, lurch - loiter about, with no apparent aim