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  • verb Present participle of lollygag.

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Examples

  • With the length between the final three seasons, and the precious few episodes to wrap it up, the time for lollygagging is over.

    The Tail Section » 2007 » August 2007

  • The President might want to learn something from a scene in the movie "Bull Durham" when the minor-league manager shakes up his "lollygagging" baseball team by confronting the players in the shower and hurling bats at their feet.

    Blaming the 'Dithering' Obama 2009

  • Kelly even admitted that Tad was "lollygagging" on our house while Fred has made sure that there are different teams of people putting that house together daily with visible results being made on a daily basis.

    unclebob Diary Entry unclebob 2002

  • "We came out kind of lollygagging, going through the motions, and they came out playing hard," House said, "and they got us."

    wbur.org 2009

  • That''ll teach me to stop lollygagging around and get things done farther ahead of time.

    Can I drive this car legally in Mexico? 2009

  • That''ll teach me to stop lollygagging around and get things done farther ahead of time. esperanza

    Can I drive this car legally in Mexico? 2009

  • Whereas the Republican Congress are off lollygagging for a whole month after destroying our economy, Barack is left holding the "buck stops here" bag.

    Abe Gurko: The 'Buck Stops Here' Bag: The New 'It' Bag Abe Gurko 2011

  • That''ll teach me to stop lollygagging around and get things done farther ahead of time. esperanza

    Can I drive this car legally in Mexico? 2009

  • That''ll teach me to stop lollygagging around and get things done farther ahead of time. esperanza

    Can I drive this car legally in Mexico? 2009

  • That''ll teach me to stop lollygagging around and get things done farther ahead of time.

    Can I drive this car legally in Mexico? 2009

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  • Maybe if you wouldn't try to eat the whole sucker at once....

    October 13, 2007

  • This word now sounds totally dirty to me.

    October 13, 2007

  • Then my work here is done!

    ;-)

    October 13, 2007

  • Good one, npydyuan.

    October 13, 2007

  • JM wonders if choking on an all day sucker while riding a carousel is lollygagging around?

    June 15, 2011

  • Hm, does all day sucker need brackets?

    Dirtier and dirtier.

    June 15, 2011