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Definitions: Play Around |
Play AroundVerb1. Commit adultery; "he plays around a lot". 2. Work with in a non-serious manner; "She dabbles in astronomy"; "He plays around with investments bu he never makes any money". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonyms: Play AroundSynonyms: dabble (v), fool around (v), smatter (v). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Play Around |
| English words defined with "play around": monkey ♦ tamper. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "play around": 3DO ♦ AI koan ♦ Devil among the Tailors ♦ Electricity ♦ ICQ ♦ PDP-7, peter pan collar ♦ Real Programmers Don't Use Pascal ♦ Seiko RC-4000. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Bridget works in a publishing house and she used to play around naked in my paddling pool. (Bridget Jones's Diary; writing credit: Helen Fielding) You're sure you oughta play around with that thing? (The Mummy; writing credit: Stephen Sommers; Lloyd Fonvielle) | |
Lyrics | Strictly biz, she don't play around (No Diggity; performing artist: Blackstreet) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | ![]() | Father and son before their house. Two girls from a neighboring house pose with them. "Those two girls are 'too old' to go to school, so they just play around with my boy." (Girls' ages, fourteen and sixteen; the older one has only one good eye). Hudson,. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "play around"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | ходя по любов, играя си (dally, fidget, fool with, meddle, mess about, mess around, monkey, play about), изневерявам често, държа се несериозно (carry on, play about). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | umspielen (dribble round, lap about, play about, swirl about), spielen (act, be on, doodle, enact, gamble, make a scene, make a song and dance, perform, play, play about, playing, punt, show, simulate, to play, toy), herumspielen (fiddle about, mess about, mess around, muck about, muck around, twiddle). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | angkat-angkatan (play around at lifting). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | divertirsi (delight, disport, enjoy oneself, play about, revel, sport). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ayplay arounday juguetear (Frisk, frolic, gambol, monkey, play about, rollick, toy, wanton), jugar (coquet, gamble, game, joy, move, play, play about, play at, sport, toy), hacer el tonto (play about, play the fool, skylark about). (various references) ha kärleksaffärer. (various references) vakit geçirmek (fool, Potter, potter at), oynamak (act, budge, dance, enact, Frisk, hop, interpret, jig, juggle, mess smth. about, monkey, move, perform, place one's bet, play, play at, play on, play upon, play with, playact, portray, represent, shake a leg, toy, work), oyalanmak (amuse oneself, be amused, be pleased with, dally, delay, dilly dally, disport oneself, fool, fool about, fool around, footle, fribble, frivol, hang out, linger, loiter, mess around, monkey around, piddle, Potter, potter about, potter at, procrastinate, stay, Tarry, trifle, trifle with, waste time). (various references) фліртувати (flirt, gallivant). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-d-l-n-o-p-r-u-y" | |
-2 letters: parlando, pauldron. | |
-3 letters: dalapon, lanyard, laundry, lupanar, nodular, pandora, pandour, pandura, payload, poulard, poundal, proudly, roundly. | |
-4 letters: anodal, anural, apodal, around, dourly, ladron, landau, lardon, lurdan, pardon, parlay, parody, payola, planar, prolan, purana, pyrola, radula, ranula, unload, upland, upload, uranyl, yaupon. | |
-5 letters: adorn, aland, alary, aloud, apron, aural, doura, dural, lardy, lauan, laura, layup. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-d-l-n-o-p-r-u-y" | |
+5 letters: cardiopulmonary, polyunsaturated. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)50 6C 61 79      41 72 6F 75 6E 64 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010000 01101100 01100001 01111001 00100000 01000001 01110010 01101111 01110101 01101110 01100100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)P l a y   A r o u n d |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0050 006C 0061 0079      0041 0072 006F 0075 006E 0064 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)507867912358481878070 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Images: Photo Album 6. Translations: Modern 7. Anagrams 8. Orthography | 9. Bibliography |
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