fool around
phrasal verbfool around
- (British English also fool about)to waste time instead of doing something that you should be doing synonym mess around
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- fool around (with somebody) to have a sexual relationship with another person’s partner; to have a sexual relationship with somebody who is not your partner synonym mess around
- She's been fooling around with a married man.