Definition of "mess about" []

• To misbehave (verb)
• To be in a casual non-committal relationship (verb)
• To play with; to toy with; to waste the time of (a person). (verb)

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• "He’s been telling me all kinds of crazy mess about why you gotta cook a certain way, then is trying to get me to eat these here pancakes with no eggs in ’em with tofu whipped cream—whatever that is—and then he had the nerve to swirl up almost all them good collards in a danged blender!"
• "Trevanion incident Langsdorff was not going to mess about using-machine guns to dissuade wireless operators from transmitting RRR reports."
• "“Defend your rooms against intruders while you mess about in deep matters weakminded women can never understand?"