loiter around

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loiter around

To waste time being idle; to spend time doing little or nothing. Quit loitering around and help me take out the trash! After the stressful week that I had, I'm looking forward to just loitering around the house for the weekend.
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loiter around

to idle somewhere; to hang around. Stop loitering around! Get going! The kids were loitering around for most of the summer.
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A leaflet will tell the story of a fictitious 15-year-old named ' Andy' who loiters around shops with his friends making people buy alcohol for them and intimidating younger children' Andy' explains how drastically his life has been affected since he was issued with an anti-social behaviour order which keeps him to an 8pm curfew.
Pupils are told to get a life, not an ASBO
North Wales Police said he loiters around play areas.
Alert over playground pervert
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