Usually means: Engage in aimless or casual activity.
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  1. mess about: Merriam-Webster
  2. mess about: Collins English Dictionary
  3. mess about: Vocabulary.com
  4. mess about: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  5. mess about: Wiktionary
  6. mess about: Dictionary.com
  7. mess about: Rhymezone
  8. mess about: FreeDictionary.org
  9. mess about: Mnemonic Dictionary
  10. mess about: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. mess about: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. mess about: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. mess about: Medical dictionary

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  1. mess about: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. mess about: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. mess about: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (mess about)

verb:  (intransitive) To misbehave
verb:  (intransitive) To be in a casual non-committal relationship
verb:  (transitive) To play with; to toy with; to waste the time of (a person).

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