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goof off verb to waste time, to idle US, 1943- Spent days with Vicki just “goofing off” and then I came out of it walking two miles in Manhattan. — Jack Kerouac, Windblown World, p. 37, 12 December 1947
- Honey, you can sit the next set out in the back yard if you promise not to goof off and get lost. — Steve Allen, Bop Fables, p. 4, 1955
- I stay loose. I hit the flicks, goof off a little, quaff a few brews with the boys. — Max Shulman, Guided Tour of Campus Humor, p. 105, 1955
- “Yes, I think so,” said the dark-haired girl, then added with a frown: “Unless they’re goofing off. We’ve had a lot of goofing off lately–especially among the boys.” — Terry Southern, Candy, p. 179, 1958
- The doctors said I was a malingerer. I said I only liked regular sex. Then I found out they meant I was goofin’ off. Okay. — Edwin Torres, After Hours, p. 360, 1979
- You could go down on the corner and pick up on any of those Puerto Rican kids you’ve seen goofing off and they could give you a rundown on that scene that would put me to shame. — Herbert Huncke, Guilty of Everything, p. 9, 1990
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