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muck around

Verb

Meaning

do random, unplanned work or activities or spend time idly

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Few people today muck around in earth, and when on international flights, I often find I have the only decently dirty fingernails. Bill Mollison

You can muck around with different guitars for certain bits, but you have to have your own sound. That's your benchmark, that's your sound. I also play a Black Beauty. It sounds amazing. Dan Hawkins

I'm surrounded by the beach, so I love to fish and to dive and to swim. I walk a lot, and I bike around. I hang out at the beach, really, and muck around. Lorde

Poetry was a meeting of mind and heart, I felt at one with poetry itself. I like the concentrated language, the play with form, and the way you can muck around with words in a way that you can't in a novel. Poetry allows you to be intense, because to some degree people expect it. Daljit Nagra

I am going to have to stick to the script. If I muck around with the words it will defeat the object. Clive Anderson

The old lady is usually mucking about in her little house Source: Internet

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