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Definition of
screw around phrasal verb
from the Oxford Advanced American Dictionary
screw around
phrasal verb
phrasal verb
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screw around
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slang
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to waste time instead of doing something that you should be doing
I woke up at noon and screwed around the rest of the day.
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screw around
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