Meanings
verbprat about (third-person singular simple present prats about, present participle pratting about, simple past and past participle pratted about)
present singular third person prats about · participle present pratting about · participle past pratted about · past pratted about
- informalTo fail to do something correctly, and so consider the time to be wasted.
I spent the weekend pratting about with the central heating and got absolutely nowhere with it!
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