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/ˈlɒlɪɡæɡ/ · verb
(US) To dawdle; to be lazy or idle; to avoid necessary work or effort..
Stop lollygagging! […] He ate ALL the ship's food! 'Zat your friend? Show him outta here!
Now this plaintiff thinks how poor he hereafter will have to live, for the sake of old Green's having a fine fat woman to lollygag with.
Lovemaking and lollygagging are hereby strictly forbidden. […] The holding of hands, osculation and constant embracing of WAVES, corpsmen or civilians and sailors or any combination of male and female personnel is a violation of naval discipline. […]
At the fair the other day George and Sue were lollygagging around like two sick kittens.
He likes to do his car up with blacked-out windows, and all that lollygag.
The lallygag strolls down the road that leads to Failureville.
Use lollygag when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Lollygag means (US) To dawdle; to be lazy or idle; to avoid necessary work or effort..
Common synonyms include dawdle, shirk, slack, procrastinate.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Stop lollygagging! […] He ate ALL the ship's food! 'Zat your friend? Show him outta here!
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