Usually means: Engage in casual or playful activities.
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  1. fool around: Merriam-Webster
  2. fool around: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. fool around: Vocabulary.com
  4. fool around: Wiktionary
  5. fool around: Dictionary.com
  6. Fool Around: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  7. fool around: Rhymezone
  8. fool around: FreeDictionary.org
  9. fool around: Mnemonic Dictionary
  10. fool around: TheFreeDictionary.com
  11. fool around: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. fool around: Encyclopedia

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  1. fool around: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. fool around: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. fool around: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom

Definitions from Wiktionary (fool around)

verb:  (intransitive, idiomatic) To engage in frivolous behaviour; to monkey around.
verb:  (intransitive) To waste time.
verb:  (intransitive, informal, idiomatic) To engage in casual or flirtatious sexual acts.
verb:  (intransitive, informal) To engage in adultery; to play around.

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