putter
mess around
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tinker
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monkey around
muck about
muck around

The other wickets came from two 12-year-olds we'd found mucking about in the field next door.

I'm not going to be mucked about by the likes of you, mate.

He is also credited as having "mucked about" with these adaptations.

He'd learned a lot in one day and, in a word, he was tired of mucking about.

After several hours of mucking about, the boggies fell exhausted to the ground.

What were you mucking about in the dark for?

What the management has to learn is that we can't be mucked about.

Tommy, who had been mucking about on the wall with Rodney, suddenly jumped down and went still.

To be frank, all this mucking about is not great preparation for my next interview.

We take the kids to the beach all the time and they're free; always running around, having swimming lessons, mucking about.