goof around
US informal— phrasal verb with goof uk/ɡuːf/us/ɡuːf/verb [ I or T ] mainly US informal
to spend time doing nothing important or behaving in a silly way:
The boys spent the whole summer just goofing around.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Behaving in a silly way
- act/play the goat idiom
- be asking for it/trouble idiom
- be playing at sth idiom
- clown
- cut up
- faff
- fart
- goat
- goof
- horse around
- kid
- kid around
- mess
- monkey
- monkey around
- muck
- muck sb/sth about/around
- piss (sb) about/around
- play around
- spectacle
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