Usually means: Waste time through aimless wandering.
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We found 24 dictionaries that define the word dilly dally:

General (19 matching dictionaries)
  1. dilly-dally: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  2. dilly-dally: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  3. dilly-dally, dilly-dally: Collins English Dictionary
  4. dilly-dally: Vocabulary.com
  5. dilly-dally: Wordnik
  6. dilly-dally, dilly dally: Wiktionary
  7. dilly-dally: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  8. Dilly-dally, dilly-dally, dilly dally: Dictionary.com
  9. Dilly Dally: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. Dilly-dally: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. dilly-dally: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  12. dilly-dally: Rhymezone
  13. Dilly-dally: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  14. dilly-dally: FreeDictionary.org
  15. dilly-dally: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. dilly-dally: TheFreeDictionary.com
  17. dilly dally: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. dilly dally: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. dilly-dally: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. dilly-dally: A Word A Day

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. dilly-dally: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  2. Dilly Dally, dilly-dally: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (Dilly dally)

verb:  Alternative spelling of dilly-dally [(intransitive) To dawdle; to waste time; to procrastinate.]

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