effing around

effing around

rude slang Engaging in aimless recreation or frivolous time-wasting; fooling around. "Eff" is a euphemism for "fuck." I can't believe we spent the whole day just effing around online.
See also: around, effing
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

effing around

and F-ing around
in. fucking around; messing around. (see also fuck around. Usually objectionable.) They were F-ing around with the switch and turned it on accidentally.
See also: around, effing

F-ing around

verb
See effing around
See also: around
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See also:
  • F-ing around
  • futz with
  • futz with (something)
  • futz around
  • putz around
  • screw off
  • fool away
References in periodicals archive
"I said: 'Stop effing around Brookes.' .' But the next thing he necked the bottle and it was gone in seconds.
'He'd be alive if he wasn't game - neknominate is playing this out of hand'
"I said: 'Stop effing around Brookes.' But the next thing he necked the bottle and it was gone in seconds.
Neknominate-death man 'six times limit'