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fooling with

fooling with is the present participle and gerund of fool with.

Meaning of fool with

Verb

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

  1. (transitive) To involve oneself with in a dangerous and reckless manner.
    • If you fool with the Mafia, expect to get hurt.

Questions about fooling with

What is fooling with the present participle and gerund of?
Fooling with is the present participle and gerund of fool with.

Words near fooling with in the dictionary

  1. fooling about
  2. fooling along
  3. fooling around
  4. fooling away
  5. fooling up
  6. fooling with
  7. foolings
  8. foolio
  9. foolios
  10. foolish
  11. foolish guillemot

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Adapted from Wiktionary: fooling with (page history and authors); fool with (page history and authors). 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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