fool around

• Verbo usado para indicar comportamento brincalhão, tolo ou pouco sério, ou para passar o tempo à toa sem fazer nada de útil.

A phrasal verb used to indicate engaging in playful, silly, or unserious behavior, or wasting time.

incontável · intransitivo · phrasal, sem objeto

1. Behave playfully or waste timeinformal

   To act in a silly or unserious way, often wasting time instead of doing something productive.

   Ficar à toa

   • Stop fooling around and finish your homework.
   • The kids were fooling around in the backyard.
   • He got fired for fooling around at work.

   Sinônimosclown aroundgoof-offhorse aroundlark aboutmess aroundmonkey aroundmuck aboutplay around

   Antônimoslaborstrivetoilwork

2. Engage in casual sexual activityinformal

   To engage in sexual activity without serious intentions or commitment.

   Envolver-se em relações sexuais casuais

   • They were just fooling around, not in a serious relationship.
   • She caught him fooling around with her best friend.
   • He's not looking for anything serious, just fooling around.

   Sinônimoshook upmess aroundplay aroundsleep around

Verbo basefool