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Discover LudwigThe phrase "dick around" is considered slang and may not be appropriate for all written contexts.
It is commonly used in informal speech and writing, and may not be suitable for more formal or professional settings. Example: "I spent the whole afternoon just dickin' around on my computer instead of getting any work done."
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dick around
verb
To waste time on an unproductive activity.
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Now I, his coddled son, get to dick around on the Internet all day.
Give the Chinese another fifty years and they'll have shipped all their manufacturing to Mars and they'll dick around on the Internet as well.
The main mission of most web browsing sessions – to dick around on the Internet – points directly to the value of brevity.
He went to dick around on the computer.
He who waves his broken dick around will get a bunch of idiots killed.
There's no guarantee they aren't going to misuse your money -- or dick around and run off with it.
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It took a while to get there because Dick dicked around for years, not allocating the proper resources to that war.
"We were just kind of dicking around," Crowley said.
They know they're not going to be dicked around".
Are you tired of getting dicked around by the Washington establishment?
I'd been a dick, dicked around, throughout the long near-decade of our relationship, countless men, often, though not always, for money.
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