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prats about

prats about is the third-person singular simple present indicative of prat about.

Meaning of prat about

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!

Questions about prats about

What is prats about the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Prats about is the third-person singular simple present indicative of prat about.

Words near prats about in the dictionary

  1. pratityasamutpada
  2. pratiyasamutpada
  3. Prato
  4. pratol
  5. prats
  6. prats about
  7. prats around
  8. pratt
  9. Pratt County
  10. Pratt knot
  11. Pratt knots

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