"arse about" meaning in English

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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "arses about",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "arsing about",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "arsed about",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "arsed about",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
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      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
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        {
          "word": "arse around"
        }
      ],
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        "Alternative form of arse around"
      ],
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      "synonyms": [
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0 0",
          "tags": [
            "adjective"
          ],
          "word": "arse-about"
        }
      ],
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        "alt-of",
        "alternative"
      ]
    },
    {
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      "glosses": [
        "To turn round."
      ],
      "id": "en-arse_about-en-verb-DwYJDc3n",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(obsolete, slang) To turn round."
      ],
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        "obsolete",
        "slang"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "tags": [
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  "word": "arse about"
}

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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
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        },
        {
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          "name": "English phrasal verbs with particle (about)",
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      ],
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        {
          "text": "You've got this arse-about!"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1995, David Wills, Prosthesis, Stanford University Press, page 207",
          "text": "For the dome of the belly turned arse about has its parallel in the eye that falls out like the contents of a broken egg and that in its evocation of and preempting of regeneration becomes, in Bataille's novel, unremittingly erotic and polymorphously perverse.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2007, L. J. Spears, Jack Flagg, page 66",
          "text": "Strike me if wasn't thinking old Colonel Bill had got it arse about.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2008, Kieran Kelly, Aspiring, Pan MacMillan Australia, page 65",
          "text": "‘This is arse-about, you know,’ I said. ‘You′ve got the athletic skills, and I'm the one going mountain climbing.[…].’",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The wrong way round; exactly opposite to that which is desirable; contrary; conceptually inverted; wrong."
      ],
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          "opposite"
        ],
        [
          "desirable",
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        ],
        [
          "contrary",
          "contrary"
        ],
        [
          "invert",
          "invert"
        ],
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          "wrong",
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        "(slang) The wrong way round; exactly opposite to that which is desirable; contrary; conceptually inverted; wrong."
      ],
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        "singular",
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    },
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      "form": "arsing about",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
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    },
    {
      "form": "arsed about",
      "tags": [
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        "past"
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    },
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      "form": "arsed about",
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        "Alternative form of arse around"
      ],
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        "To turn round."
      ],
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        "(obsolete, slang) To turn round."
      ],
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        "obsolete",
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      ]
    }
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    {
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      "word": "arse-about"
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      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "You've got this arse-about!"
        },
        {
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          "text": "For the dome of the belly turned arse about has its parallel in the eye that falls out like the contents of a broken egg and that in its evocation of and preempting of regeneration becomes, in Bataille's novel, unremittingly erotic and polymorphously perverse.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
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          "text": "Strike me if wasn't thinking old Colonel Bill had got it arse about.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2008, Kieran Kelly, Aspiring, Pan MacMillan Australia, page 65",
          "text": "‘This is arse-about, you know,’ I said. ‘You′ve got the athletic skills, and I'm the one going mountain climbing.[…].’",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The wrong way round; exactly opposite to that which is desirable; contrary; conceptually inverted; wrong."
      ],
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        [
          "desirable",
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          "contrary",
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        ],
        [
          "invert",
          "invert"
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          "wrong",
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        "(slang) The wrong way round; exactly opposite to that which is desirable; contrary; conceptually inverted; wrong."
      ],
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