clowning around

Synonyms

playing irresponsibility buffoonery absurdness mischief-making

Examples

Well, enough clowning around. Perl is, in intent, a cleaned up and summarized version of that wonderful semi-natural language known as'Unix. Larry Wall

I was always one who was clowning around in school and getting in trouble. David Boreanaz

Words in the phrase

clowning around

Close letter words and terms

clownheal clowning clowning about clowningly clownish clownishly