v
(intransitive) to play the fool
v
Alternative form of play the fool [(idiomatic) To behave in a foolish or comical manner.]
v
(Ireland) To play around in a foolish or annoying manner.
v
(Ireland) Alternative form of act the jennet [(Ireland) To play around in a foolish or annoying manner.]
v
(Ireland) To play around in a foolish or annoying manner.
v
(transitive) To prank on April Fool's Day.
v
(slang, intransitive) To be silly, act stupid or mess around.
v
(intransitive, slang) To behave in a clownish, irresponsible or inefficient manner.
adv
(postpositive, slang, vulgar, simile) To a great extent or degree; very.
adj
(comparable, slang) Very angry.
v
(vulgar, transitive) Speaking or acting with bravado to achieve (something)
v
(chiefly Britain, vulgar, slang) To engage in a lot of activity with many unwanted or unnecessary details.
v
Alternative form of balls about [(chiefly Britain, vulgar, slang) To engage in a lot of activity with many unwanted or unnecessary details.]
v
(slang, archaic) To jeer or make fun of.
n
Ellipsis of Banbury story of a cock and a bull.. [(idiomatic, obsolete, slang, Britain) A roundabout, nonsensical story.]
v
(transitive) To use or pass about casually.
v
(archaic, Scotland) To play a trick on, make a fool of.
v
(slang, vulgar, intransitive, US) To complain or criticise
v
(slang) To complain; to yell at.
n
(obsolete) A senseless babbler or boaster.
n
(film, informal) A filmed or videotaped outtake that has recorded an amusing accident and/or mistake.
n
(historical) The riots that followed the 1948 assassination in Bogotá, Colombia of Liberal leader and presidential candidate Jorge Eliécer Gaitán.
v
(intransitive) To waste time on a pointless activity.
adj
(rare) Befitting or characteristic of a bouncer (security personnel).
adj
(slang, obsolete) Jovial and blustering.
v
(African-American Vernacular) To call the bluff of, or respond to the threats or boasts of, someone who has been selling wolf tickets.
v
(intransitive) To move about carelessly, playfully or boisterously.
n
(India) Someone who violates rules in order to gain an advantage; a cheater.
v
(Australia, New Zealand, Britain, transitive) To taunt or tease.
n
Obsolete spelling of chouse [(obsolete) One who is easily cheated; a gullible person.]
v
(derogatory, offensive, slang, of black people) To behave aggressively or violently.
n
(slang, derogatory, offensive, ethnic slur) An aggressive or violent outburst by a black person.
v
(slang) To feign an epileptic attack.
v
(Singapore, informal) To inconvenience or disturb; to make a fuss and bother; to act up.
n
(vulgar, derogatory, slang) A situation in which a group of people engage in self-indulgent or self-gratifying behavior, especially by reinforcing each other's views or attitudes.
v
(UK) to have fun in an irresponsible manner
v
To have fun in an irresponsible manner.
v
(slang, transitive, dialectal) To attempt to deceive or confuse; To joke; To kid.
v
To waste time; to dally.
v
(intransitive, African-American Vernacular, slang) To covertly have sex (with a person other than one's primary partner); to cheat with.
v
To frolic or romp; to dance about in a frantic or ridiculous manner.
v
(intransitive, Scotland) To be foolish; make sport; play; toy.
v
(vulgar, informal, Canada, US) To waste time on an unproductive activity.
v
(transitive, slang) To molest.
v
(slang, transitive, Canada, US) To mess around, to play
n
Eye dialect spelling of deuce. [(card games) A card with two pips, one of four in a standard deck of playing cards.]
v
(Britain, slang) To waste time on an unproductive activity.
v
(intransitive, chiefly UK) To waste time; spend time idly.
v
(intransitive, informal) To waste time; spend time idly.
n
(UK, slang) faffing about; unproductive wasting of time
v
(chiefly Britain, intransitive, idiomatic) To waste time or fool around; to engage in activity which produces little or no accomplishment.
v
Alternative form of fanny about [(chiefly Britain, intransitive, idiomatic) To waste time or fool around; to engage in activity which produces little or no accomplishment.]
adj
(slang, regional) Federal.
v
(intransitive) To waste time; spend time idly.
v
(intransitive) Synonym of fuck around: to waste time, to sleep around.
v
(transitive) To waste (time)
v
(idiomatic) To neglect helping when one’s time is needed most; to ignore the major problem at hand (whilst doing something less important); to be idle, inactive, or uninterested in a time of great need.
v
(US, vulgar slang) To waste time.
v
(Cumbria) To mess around, to waste time.
v
Alternative form of fizgig [(archaic, intransitive) To roam around in a frivolous manner; to gad about, to gallivant.]
v
Alternative form of flapdoodle [To con; to deceive with nonsense.]
v
(US, slang, vulgar) To make a rapid and illegal U-turn.
n
(slang) A flop; an utter failure.
v
(intransitive) to fool around
v
(intransitive, idiomatic) To engage in frivolous behaviour; to monkey around.
v
(idiomatic) to waste, squander
v
(archaic, intransitive) To act foolishly.
v
(transitive) To involve oneself with in a dangerous and reckless manner.
v
(Ireland and Scotland, slang) To meddle with or pass time without accomplishing anything meaningful.
v
To pass time doing unimportant things; to mess around.
v
To pass time doing unimportant things; to mess around.
v
(intransitive, often with about, around, or away) To squander or waste time, money, or other resources; e.g. occupy oneself idly or without clear purpose, to tinker with an unimportant part of a project, to dally, sometimes as a form of procrastination.
v
(vulgar, slang, intransitive) To fool around.
v
(slang, vulgar) To horseplay, joke around, behave immaturely or irresponsibly
v
(intransitive, slang, vulgar, chiefly African-American Vernacular) To engage in a risky course of action, and then experience the negative consequences.
v
Alternative form of fuck around [(slang, vulgar) To fritter aimlessly or distractedly, to procrastinate, to waste time.]
v
(vulgar, slang, idiomatic) To play with in a lighthearted or joking manner; or kid with
n
(rare, informal) A clumsy person; a butterfingers.
v
To be frivolous and waste time.
v
(slang) To derive pleasure or excitement from.
n
Alternative form of gibsmedat [(derogatory, slang) A supposed mentality of entitlement to welfare and refusal to pay, stereotypically associated with African-Americans.]
v
(sometimes vulgar, chiefly in the negative, idiomatic, informal) To be concerned about, have an interest in, to care (about something).
v
(US, slang) To lie; to tell an untruth
v
(US) To engage in mischief.
v
To play, or to fool around.
v
(US, slang) To dawdle, lollygag; to waste time aimlessly or engage in idle activity or inactivity.
v
(informal) to mock, tease, make fun of
n
(slang) A cheat, a fraud; an imposition.
v
(informal) To fool around.
v
(intransitive, archaic) To take the bait; to be defrauded or duped.
v
(UK, Australia, New Zealand, colloquial, transitive) To trick or deceive deliberately; to play a prank on.
v
To romp rudely or indecently.
v
(transitive) To attack (a place) with hooligan behaviour.
v
(intransitive, idiomatic) To fiddle or play; to clown; to do nothing of consequence or importance.
v
(slang, obsolete) To waste time talking.
n
(slang, dated) A place, event etc. that is bustling or full of activity.
n
(Caribbean) A person dressed up as a devil-like character, in Caribbean carnivals, who carries a whip used for hitting other devils.
v
(slang) To dawdle; to waste time.
v
(slang, derogatory) To ask loaded questions inviting someone to justify their views or behaviours, in an attempt to make tangential claims of little verisimilitude appear acceptable.
v
(intransitive) To act foolishly.
v
(informal) (procrastinate, fool around, behave immaturely): bowdlerization of fuck around
v
(Britain, US, Ireland, colloquial, transitive) Kidding, trying to fool.
v
(transitive, idiomatic) To engage in playful fun.
n
Horseplay, fooling around.
n
(Britain, New Zealand) A fun person.
v
(US, dated, 19th-20th centuries) To fool around, especially sexually.
v
(transitive) To cause (someone) to seem foolish.
v
(idiomatic, transitive) To cause a person, group, or action to appear foolish or inferior; to subject someone or something to ridicule.
v
(idiomatic, informal) To tease, ridicule or make jokes about, generally in a pejorative manner.
v
(transitive) To play with; to toy with; to waste the time of (a person).
v
(informal) To fiddle idly.
v
(slang) To joke around with or dupe someone, in either a friendly or unfriendly manner.
v
Alternative form of take the mickey [(intransitive, Britain, slang, idiomatic) To ridicule or mock.]
n
(slang, vulgar) An act of confusing another person through manipulation.
v
(dialectal) To fool or monkey around.
v
Synonym of monkey around
v
(idiomatic) To act foolishly.
v
(informal, intransitive) To do random unplanned work or spend time idly
n
(Australia, informal) A prank.
v
(intransitive) To joke around, to waste time
v
(transitive, obsolete) To fool or trick (someone).
v
(slang, ethnic slur, offensive) Of a black person, to speak nonsense or gibberish.
n
(Australia, idiomatic) pointless or futile work organised by the government, supposedly to increase employment but in fact merely disguising the unemployment level.
v
(slang, intransitive, usually with "around" or "about") To mess about; to fail to get things done.
v
(Britain, slang) Alternative spelling of faff [(Britain, slang) To waste time on an unproductive activity.]
v
To waste, to fritter away.
v
To behave in a silly, or childish, or irresponsible way.
v
(colloquial, transitive) to trick/fool somebody
v
(dated, British slang) to be an unwanted third party accompanying two lovers, to serve as a chaperon
v
(idiomatic, dated UK, rustic US) mess with, cause trouble for
v
(archaic, idiomatic, UK) To play the devil; to make mischief.
v
(euphemistic) Alternative form of play silly buggers [(Britain, Australia, New Zealand, idiomatic) To act in a stupid or reckless manner.]
v
(Britain, Australia, New Zealand, idiomatic) To act in a stupid or reckless manner.
v
(idiomatic) To pretend/feign ignorance.
v
(intransitive, Australia, New Zealand, often with "at") To ridicule.
v
(Britain) To act in a vague or unmotivated way; to fuss about with unimportant things.
v
(chiefly Britain) To potter, to be gently active doing various things in an almost aimless manner.
v
(idiomatic) To engage in a futile activity.
v
(informal) To waste time doing pointless or silly things
v
(Britain, intransitive, informal) To behave foolishly.
v
(intransitive) To be engaged in meaningless activity.
v
(US) To engage in meaningless activity.
adj
(Internet slang, leetspeak) Alternative spelling of pwned
n
(with 'the') A bad deal; the result of a false promise.
n
(now archaic) Someone who romps; especially, a girl or young woman who indulges in boisterous play; a tomboy.
n
(slang, derogatory) An extortioner; a sharp bargainer; a skinflint.
v
(slang intransitive) To fool around.
v
To play with a lighthearted or joking manner
v
(African-American Vernacular) To make threats or boasts, especially if empty and/or if made to intimidate someone.
n
(obsolete) A confidence trickster; a person who preys on simpletons.
v
(Britain, vulgar) fuck off
n
(slang, African-American Vernacular) A fraud; a scam.
n
(slang) A person who is untrustworthy and dangerous.
v
(transitive, Ireland, Liverpudlian, Merseyside) To make fun of.
v
(Australia, Ireland, New Zealand) To boast.
n
(Ireland, Newfoundland) A dishonest person; a trickster, usually from a rural area.
v
(Britain, Australia, New Zealand, informal) Try it out.
v
(idiomatic) To behave disrespectfully, especially to make unwanted sexual advances.
v
(intransitive, Britain, slang, idiomatic) To ridicule or mock.
v
(intransitive, idiomatic) To use profane language, especially sexual vulgarities for the purpose of arousal.
v
(idiomatic, slang, transitive) To stimulate someone's penis sexually.
v
To handle something in a careless or frivolous manner.
v
(New Zealand, childish) to fiddle or mess around with something.
n
(UK, slang) A confidence trick in which fake jewellery is sold as genuine.
n
(MLE) A person which one does not trust and in turn wastes their life.
v
(Australia, colloquial, obsolete) To carry on small-time confidence tricks, ie. the activity of an illywhacker.
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