To jack around means to mess about, waste time, or act like you've got nowhere to be. It covers two flavours: fooling around and causing low-level chaos, or dragging your feet and killing time when you should be doing something productive. Someone who jacks around is either being playfully disruptive or frustratingly unproductive — either way, they're not taking things seriously. A staple of American informal speech that's still going strong.
Stop jacking around and help me move these boxes before it gets dark.
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(slang) To misbehave, fool around.
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(slang) To dawdle; to waste time.
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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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