British slang for wasting time or messing around without getting anything done. Implies aimless, ineffective activity — fiddling without purpose. The tone is usually mildly exasperated, used when someone should be doing something productive but clearly isn't. Roughly synonymous with 'faff about' or 'muck about,' and slightly vulgar without being strongly offensive.
Stop farting about and just book the tickets already.
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(slang) To waste time, or to fool about.
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Regional slang from around the English-speaking world — British, Australian, Irish, Caribbean, Nigerian, Filipino, AAVE, and the hyphenated-English dialects that make the internet sound local.
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