"piss about" meaning in English

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Verb

Audio: En-au-piss about.ogg [Australia] Forms: pisses about [present, singular, third-person], pissing about [participle, present], pissed about [participle, past], pissed about [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|*}} piss about (third-person singular simple present pisses about, present participle pissing about, simple past and past participle pissed about)
  1. (vulgar, idiomatic) To joke or play. Tags: idiomatic, vulgar
    Sense id: en-piss_about-en-verb-wmXy6gZe
  2. (vulgar, idiomatic) To misbehave; to act foolishly. Tags: idiomatic, vulgar
    Sense id: en-piss_about-en-verb-VcmfDeZS Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English phrasal verbs with particle (about) Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 17 83 Disambiguation of English phrasal verbs with particle (about): 23 77
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: fuck about, fuck around, mess about, mess around, piss around

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for piss about meaning in English (1.9kB)

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