mess around with somebody/something

From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishmess around with somebody/something (also mess about with somebody/something British English) phrasal verb informal1 SYSEX/HAVE SEX WITHto have a sexual relationship with someone that you should not have a sexual relationship with She’d been messing around with another man.2 INTERESTEDto spend time playing with something, repairing it etc Dave likes messing around with old cars.3 to use something and make annoying changes to it Who’s been messing around with my camera? → mess→ See Verb tableExamples from the Corpusmess around with • A monster like that is nothing to mess around with.• Now he is messing around with education, and look at the mess that that will be in.• Above all, why were these chaps messing around with helium-filled contraptions, in an age of routine rocketry?• Years ago Pauline blew off his fingers messing around with homemade rockets.• We knew they had to go so we messed around with it.• We had some spare time, so we started messing around with samples and sequencers and stuff.

单词	mess around with somebody/something
释义	mess around with somebody/something From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishmess around with somebody/something (also mess about with somebody/something British English) phrasal verb informal1 SYSEX/HAVE SEX WITHto have a sexual relationship with someone that you should not have a sexual relationship with She’d been messing around with another man.2 INTERESTEDto spend time playing with something, repairing it etc Dave likes messing around with old cars.3 to use something and make annoying changes to it Who’s been messing around with my camera? → mess→ See Verb tableExamples from the Corpusmess around with • A monster like that is nothing to mess around with.• Now he is messing around with education, and look at the mess that that will be in.• Above all, why were these chaps messing around with helium-filled contraptions, in an age of routine rocketry?• Years ago Pauline blew off his fingers messing around with homemade rockets.• We knew they had to go so we messed around with it.• We had some spare time, so we started messing around with samples and sequencers and stuff.
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