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"muck about" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe someone who is being foolhardy or messing around, usually without purpose. For example: "John likes to muck about on the weekends instead of getting work done."
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muck about
verb
To do random unplanned work or spend time idly
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With fruit this perfect, why muck about with it?
The way he'd muck about and do voices, like when I was a kid.
The agency provides reams of guidance, but the rules can be murky for people who muck about with them only occasionally — even pros.
He was like a big baby – he would muck about on the sidelines and then, as soon as the camera started rolling, put on a straight face.
Unlike most people who muck about on the Thames, Team Walliams has been aware of what is lurking in the river.
"We show them the basic principles then they can muck about with it".
"Sir Richard doesn't muck about," says Andy Purvis, an evolutionary biologist.
"If you muck about too much, well then you've just cheapened your entire artistic standard.
In today's parlance, don't muck about in someone else's business -- let history take its course for better or worse.
They didn't muck about.
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Gregg Wallace comes across on MasterChef as a no-nonsense, don't-muck-about, straight-talking, plain-dealing kind of geezer, not a foodie, certainly not a cook, just a chap who loves his food and appreciates it in big quantities.
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