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Loaf, wander idly, as in After graduating he decided to bum around Europe for a year. [Mid-1800s]

Frequent bars or nightclubs, as in Her father accused her of bumming around half the night and threatened to cut off her allowance. In the mid-1800s to bum was slang for going on a drinking spree. A century later, with the addition of around, it simply meant going to saloons or clubs.

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Have you looked around the American Dental Association website for an explanation of how fluoridation actually works?
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Added to drinking water at concentrations of around one part per million, fluoride ions stick to dental plaque.
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Then Ziegler tosses the buff LaBeouf around like a rag doll.
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In straight relationships with an age gap, words like ‘gold-digger’ and ‘trophy wife’ get thrown around.
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Toomey glides around the room like a Brazilian capoeira dancer.
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Descending the Alps to the east or south into Piedmont, a new world lies around and before you.
Glances at Europe|Horace Greeley
Davy looked around and saw an old man coming toward them across the lawn.
Davy and The Goblin|Charles E. Carryl
This, however, did not apply to the waters lying directly around the Poloe and Flatland groups.
The Giant of the North|R.M. Ballantyne
At present, Louis was too self-absorbed by the struggles within him, to look deep into what was passing around him.
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While they were doing this, he assembled the officers around him, and the meaning of our night march was explained to us.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXIX. January, 1844. Vol. LV.|Various

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