Usually means: Engage in playful or mischievous behavior.
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  1. monkey around: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. monkey around: Merriam-Webster
  3. monkey around: Vocabulary.com
  4. monkey around: Wiktionary
  5. monkey around: Dictionary.com
  6. monkey around: Rhymezone
  7. monkey around: FreeDictionary.org
  8. monkey around: Mnemonic Dictionary
  9. monkey around: TheFreeDictionary.com

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Definitions from Wiktionary (monkey around)

▸ verb:  (informal, idiomatic) To act foolishly.

Similar:
mess around, muck around, putter, potter, tinker, monkey, fool around, jerk around, goof around, play around, more...

Opposite:
focus, concentrate, work seriously

Phrases:
places to monkey around, more...

Adjectives:
nonsense, fun, feddle, fribble, pansy, donk, frolic, flirt, blag, taunt, bob

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Similar:
mess around, muck around, putter, potter, tinker, monkey, fool around, jerk around, goof around, play around, more...

Opposite:
focus, concentrate, work seriously

Phrases:
places to monkey around, more...

Adjectives:
nonsense, fun, feddle, fribble, pansy, donk, frolic, flirt, blag, taunt, bob



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