Usually means: Waste time through aimless activity.
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We found 32 dictionaries that define the word dally:

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  1. dally: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. dally, dally: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. dally: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. dally: Collins English Dictionary
  5. dally: Vocabulary.com
  6. Dally, dally: Wordnik
  7. dally: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Dally, dally: Wiktionary
  9. dally: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. dally: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. dally: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Dally, dally: Dictionary.com
  13. dally: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. dally: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Dally (gene), Dally: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Dally: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. dally: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. dally: Rhymezone
  19. dally: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. dally: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. dally: Free Dictionary
  22. dally: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. dally: Dictionary/thesaurus

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  1. dally: Legal dictionary

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  1. dally: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. dally: Idioms
  2. dally: Wordcraft Dictionary

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. dally: Cytokines & Cells Online Pathfinder Encyclopaedia

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. dally, dally, Dally, Dally: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. dally: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See dallied as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  To waste time in trivial activities, or in idleness; to trifle.
verb:  (transitive, intransitive) To caress, especially of a sexual nature; to fondle or pet
verb:  To delay unnecessarily; to while away.
noun:  Several wraps of rope around the saddle horn, used to stop animals in roping.
verb:  To wind the lasso rope (ie throw-rope) around the saddle horn (the saddle horn is attached to the pommel of a western style saddle) after the roping of an animal
noun:  A surname.
noun:  (colloquial New Zealand) A New Zealand person of Croatian or other Balkan descent.
noun:  (India) Alternative form of dolly (“offering of fruit or flowers”) [(childish, colloquial) A doll.]

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