Usually means: Engage in casual or unserious activities.
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  1. mess around: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. mess around: Merriam-Webster
  3. mess around: Collins English Dictionary
  4. mess around: Vocabulary.com
  5. mess around: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. mess around: Wiktionary
  7. mess around: Dictionary.com
  8. Mess Around (Cage the Elephant song), Mess Around: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. mess around: Rhymezone
  10. mess around: FreeDictionary.org
  11. mess around: Mnemonic Dictionary
  12. mess around: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. mess around: Legal dictionary

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

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

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  1. mess around: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. mess around: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  2. mess around: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (mess around)

verb:  (informal) To fiddle idly.
verb:  (informal) To joke, kid, or play.
verb:  (informal) To have a sexual relationship, especially one which is non-commital.

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