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fool around

fool around verb: to engage in frivolous behaviour; to monkey around.

Verb

fool around (third-person singular simple present fools around, present participle fooling around, simple past and past participle fooled around)

  1. (idiomatic, intransitive) To engage in frivolous behaviour; to monkey around.
  2. (intransitive) To waste time.
  3. (idiomatic, informal, intransitive) To engage in casual or flirtatious sexual acts.
    • Jake has been fooling around with a married woman.
    • Wanna get drunk and fool around?1975, Peter Benchley, Carl Gottlieb, Jaws, spoken by Ellen Brody (Lorraine Gary)
  4. (informal, intransitive) To engage in adultery; to play around.

fool around meaning in Tamil and Malayalam

fool around in Tamil

to fool around
கூத்தாடு kūttāṭu

fool around in Malayalam

trifle, fiddle, play (aboutaround)
ചപലത കാട്ടുക, മോശമായി കെെകാര്യം ചെയ്യുക, അലസമായി പ്രവർത്തിക്കുക, നിരുദ്ദേശ്യമായി വല്ലതും ചെയ്യുക, കളിക്കുക, നിസ്സാരമാക്കിച്ചെയ്ക
womanize, philander, flirt
കേളീവിലാസമാടുക, സ്ത്രീ ലോലത്വം കാട്ടുക, സ്ത്രീസേവ ചെയ്ക, പ്രേമചാപല്യം കാട്ടുക, വ്യഭിചരിക്കുക, വേശ്യാഗമനം നടത്തുക

Forms of fool around

third-person singular presentfools around
present participlefooling around
past participlefooled around
pastfooled around

Questions about fool around

What does fool around mean?
Fool around means to engage in frivolous behaviour; to monkey around.
What is fool around in Tamil?
Fool around in Tamil is கூத்தாடு (kūttāṭu). See Fool around meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is fool around?
Fool around is a verb.
What is the past tense of fool around?
The past tense of fool around is fooled around.

Words near fool around in the dictionary

  1. fooking
  2. fooks
  3. fool
  4. fool about
  5. fool along
  6. fool around
  7. fool away
  8. fool duck
  9. fool ducks
  10. fool for Christ
  11. fool killer

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: fool around (page history and authors); கூத்தாடு (Tamil) (page history and authors); fool around (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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