"arse around" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "arses around",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "arsing around",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "arsed around",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "arsed around",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "arse around (third-person singular simple present arses around, present participle arsing around, simple past and past participle arsed around)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English phrasal verbs with particle (around)",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "Quit arsing around and get to work!",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1944, Nevil Shute, chapter 2, in Pastoral, London: Pan Books, published 1964",
          "text": "[…] up in London you arse around and go to the local and meet the boys and perhaps take in a flick, and then when you go to bed you find you’ve spent a quid and wonder where in hell it went and what you got for it.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To behave in a clownish, irresponsible or inefficient manner."
      ],
      "id": "en-arse_around-en-verb-Oe2vxv0n",
      "links": [
        [
          "clownish",
          "clownish"
        ],
        [
          "irresponsible",
          "irresponsible"
        ],
        [
          "inefficient",
          "inefficient"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(intransitive, slang) To behave in a clownish, irresponsible or inefficient manner."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "arse about"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "intransitive",
        "slang"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "audio": "En-au-arse around.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/e/eb/En-au-arse_around.ogg/En-au-arse_around.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/eb/En-au-arse_around.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "Australia"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (AU)"
    }
  ],
  "word": "arse around"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "arses around",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "arsing around",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "arsed around",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "arsed around",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "arse around (third-person singular simple present arses around, present participle arsing around, simple past and past participle arsed around)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English intransitive verbs",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English phrasal verbs",
        "English phrasal verbs with particle (around)",
        "English slang",
        "English terms with audio links",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English terms with usage examples",
        "English verbs"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "Quit arsing around and get to work!",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1944, Nevil Shute, chapter 2, in Pastoral, London: Pan Books, published 1964",
          "text": "[…] up in London you arse around and go to the local and meet the boys and perhaps take in a flick, and then when you go to bed you find you’ve spent a quid and wonder where in hell it went and what you got for it.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To behave in a clownish, irresponsible or inefficient manner."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "clownish",
          "clownish"
        ],
        [
          "irresponsible",
          "irresponsible"
        ],
        [
          "inefficient",
          "inefficient"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(intransitive, slang) To behave in a clownish, irresponsible or inefficient manner."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "intransitive",
        "slang"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "audio": "En-au-arse around.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/e/eb/En-au-arse_around.ogg/En-au-arse_around.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/eb/En-au-arse_around.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "Australia"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (AU)"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "arse about"
    }
  ],
  "word": "arse around"
}