dick around
phrasal verbdick around
- (North American English, taboo, slang) to waste time by behaving in a silly way synonym mess around
- Quit dicking around, you two!
- We spent a lot of time just dicking around.
- dick around with something I spend so much time dicking around with my computer just to get it to save me time.
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dick somebody around
- (North American English, taboo, slang) to treat somebody in a way that is deliberately not helpful or wastes their time
- He's been dicking her around for months.