Usually means: Waste time through aimless wandering.
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  1. lollygag: Merriam-Webster
  2. lollygag: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. lollygag: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. lollygag: Collins English Dictionary
  5. lollygag: Vocabulary.com
  6. lollygag: Wordnik
  7. lollygag: Wiktionary
  8. lollygag: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. lollygag: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. lollygag: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. lollygag: Dictionary.com
  12. lollygag: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. Lollygag: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
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  15. lollygag: FreeDictionary.org
  16. lollygag: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. Lollygag: The Word Detective
  18. lollygag: TheFreeDictionary.com
  19. Lollygag: World Wide Words
  20. lollygag: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

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  1. lollygag: Encyclopedia

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  1. lollygag: A Word A Day
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  3. lollygag: Wordcraft Dictionary

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  1. lollygag: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (US) To dawdle; to be lazy or idle; to avoid necessary work or effort.
verb:  (US, dated, 19th-20th centuries) To fool around, especially sexually.
noun:  (US) Silliness, nonsense.

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