crap around
Idioms-
Waste time, act foolishly, as in Stop crapping around and get to work . This usage derives from crap in the sense of “defecate.” [ Vulgar slang ; 1930s”
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Trifle with, as in It's time that we all stopped crapping around with the environment . [ Vulgar slang ; 1940s]
Example Sentences
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Straining to force your crap around the puborectalis can induce haemorrhoids, intestinal inflammation, fainting – even strokes, brain haemorrhaging and heart attack.
From The Guardian • Nov. 30, 2018
If you want, you can be crap around your cousins, and it’s fine.
From The Guardian • Aug. 1, 2015
He forbid me to have any of that crap around the house.
From Time Magazine Archive
Try dragging 110-pound wheel-less coffin full of crap around LAX on a 90-degree summer day.
From Time Magazine Archive
Then I started shooting the old crap around a little bit.
From "The Catcher in the Rye" by J. D. Salinger
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