'mess around' definitions:
Definition of 'mess around'
From: WordNet
verb
Do random, unplanned work or activities or spend time idly; "The old lady is usually mucking about in her little house" [syn: putter, mess around, potter, tinker, monkey, monkey around, muck about, muck around]
Synonyms of 'mess around'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- bat out,
- botch,
- bungle,
- busybody,
- butt in,
- coquet,
- dabble,
- dally,
- dash off,
- do anyhow,
- do by halves,
- do carelessly,
- do offhand,
- doodle,
- fake up,
- fiddle,
- fiddle with,
- fiddle-faddle,
- fidget with,
- finger with,
- flirt,
- fool,
- fool around,
- fool with,
- fribble,
- frivol,
- fudge up,
- horn in,
- horse around,
- idle,
- interfere,
- interlope,
- intermeddle,
- jerk off,
- jury-rig,
- kibitz,
- kid around,
- knock off,
- knock out,
- knock together,
- lash up,
- loiter,
- meddle,
- meddle with,
- mess,
- mess with,
- monkey,
- monkey around,
- monkey with,
- nose,
- patch,
- patch together,
- patch up,
- Paul-Pry,
- piddle,
- play,
- play around,
- play with,
- potter,
- pound out,
- pry,
- puddle,
- putter,
- rough out,
- roughcast,
- roughhew,
- slap up,
- smatter,
- snoop,
- tamper,
- tamper with,
- throw off,
- throw together,
- tinker,
- toss off,
- toss out,
- toss together,
- toy,
- toy with,
- trifle,
- trifle with,
- twiddle,
- whomp up,
- womanize