piss around
phrasal verbpiss about/around
- (British English, offensive, slang) to waste time by behaving in a silly way A more polite, informal way of saying this is mess about (British English) or mess around (North American English), (British English).
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piss somebody about/around
- (British English, offensive, slang) to treat somebody in a way that is deliberately not helpful to them or wastes their time
- The job centre pissed me around for hours before they finally gave me the right form.