Usually means: Attend to someone's every need.
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  1. run around after: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. run around after: Wiktionary

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  1. run around after: Idioms

Definitions from Wiktionary (run around after)

verb:  (idiomatic, transitive) To spend a lot of time doing things for another person or group of people. Often used when that person could reasonably do the things for themselves.

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