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LOLLYGAG
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I. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Be about
Example:
Who is this man that is hanging around the department?
Synonyms:
footle; hang around; lallygag; linger; loaf; loiter; lollygag; lounge; lurk; mess about; mill about; mill around; tarry
Classified under:
Verbs of being, having, spatial relations
Hypernyms (to "lollygag" is one way to...):
be (have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun))
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "lollygag"):
lurch; prowl (loiter about, with no apparent aim)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s PP
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