"fart around" meaning in English

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Verb

Audio: En-au-fart around.ogg [Australia] Forms: farts around [present, singular, third-person], farting around [participle, present], farted around [participle, past], farted around [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|*}} fart around (third-person singular simple present farts around, present participle farting around, simple past and past participle farted around)
  1. (slang) To waste time, or to fool about. Tags: slang Synonyms: fart about, fool around
    Sense id: en-fart_around-en-verb-W7WMfDsf Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English phrasal verbs with particle (around)

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for fart around meaning in English (1.4kB)

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