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Definition of fool around phrasal verb from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

fool around

phrasal verb
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fool around
  1. (British English also fool about)
     to waste time instead of doing something that you should be doing synonym mess around
  2. 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.
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