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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of lallygag.

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Examples

  • Not to mention his siege of Manila, which cost 100,000 live due to shelling and Japanese atrocities (the Japanese would have had no time to dig in and reinforce if he had not lallygagged).

    Matthew Yglesias » ADL Hits Petraeus 2010

  • She just sorta lallygagged around doing nothing at all.

    PoeticaL trulypoetic 2002

  • We sat and lallygagged, and he had his hand where yours is-and he told me to take my clothes off. "\par

    Time Enough For Love Heinlein, Robert A. 1973

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