muck around

• Фразовый глагол, используемый для обозначения глупого или непродуктивного поведения, или траты времени на бесцельные занятия.

A phrasal verb used to indicate behaving in a silly or unproductive way, or to waste time by doing something aimlessly.

uncountable · intransitive · phrasal, no object

1. Waste time or be idleinformalbritish

   To spend time doing things that are not useful or productive; to mess about.

   Бездельничать

   • Stop mucking around and get to work.
   • The kids were mucking around in the garden instead of doing their homework.
   • We mucked around for an hour before deciding what to do.

   Synonymsdawdledilly-dallyfool aroundhang aroundidleloiterlollygagmess aroundputter

   Antonymslaborstrivetoilwork

2. Interfere or tamperinformalbritish

   To handle or adjust something in a careless or unskilled way, often causing problems.

   Вмешиваться или портить

   • Who's been mucking around with the thermostat?
   • Don't muck around with the settings on my computer.
   • He mucked around with the engine and now it won't start.

   Synonymsmeddlemess aroundtampertinker

   Antonymsadjustcarecorrectfixhandlemanagerepairtend

Base verbmuck