Usually means: Evade responsibility by being elusive.
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General (15 matching dictionaries)
  1. run around: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. run around: Collins English Dictionary
  3. run around: Vocabulary.com
  4. run-around: Wordnik
  5. run around: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. run-around, run around: Wiktionary
  7. Run-around, run around: Dictionary.com
  8. Run-Around (Blues Traveler song), Run-Around (song), Run around: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. run around: Rhymezone
  10. run-around, run around: FreeDictionary.org
  11. run around: Mnemonic Dictionary
  12. Run-around: TheFreeDictionary.com
  13. run around: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. run around: Legal dictionary
  2. run around: Financial dictionary

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

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. run around: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. run around: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (run around)

verb:  Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see run, around.
verb:  (idiomatic, intransitive) To be very busy doing many different things.
verb:  (idiomatic, intransitive) To go from place to place.
verb:  (rail transport, of a locomotive) To move from one end of the consist to the other, so as to pull the train in the opposite direction.
verb:  (slang) To cheat; to be unfaithful to a romantic partner.
verb:  (tennis, of a forehand or a backhand) To change one's position on the court to hit a forehand rather than a backhand, or vice versa.
noun:  Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see run, around.
noun:  Alternative form of runaround. [An evasive explanation in the form of multiple excuses.]

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