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prat about

prat about verb: to waste time doing pointless or silly things.

Verb

prat about (third-person singular simple present prats about, present participle pratting about, simple past and past participle pratted about)

  1. (informal) To waste time doing pointless or silly things
    • What are you pratting about with now? Get your homework done.
  2. (informal) To fail to do something correctly, and so consider the time to be wasted.
    • I spent the weekend pratting about with the central heating and got absolutely nowhere with it!

Forms of prat about

third-person singular presentprats about
present participlepratting about
past participlepratted about
pastpratted about

Questions about prat about

What does prat about mean?
Prat about means to waste time doing pointless or silly things.
What part of speech is prat about?
Prat about is a verb.
What is the past tense of prat about?
The past tense of prat about is pratted about.

Words near prat about in the dictionary

  1. prasterone
  2. prasugrel
  3. Prasuni
  4. Prasuti
  5. prat
  6. prat about
  7. prat around
  8. prat boy
  9. prat boys
  10. prat digger
  11. prat diggers

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