(US) To dawdle; to be lazy or idle; to avoid necessary work or effort.
Stop lollygagging! He ate ALL the ship's food! 'Zat your friend? Show him outta here!
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(US, dated, 19th-20th centuries) To fool around, especially sexually.
Now this plaintiff thinks how poor he hereafter will have to live, for the sake of old Green's having a fine fat woman to lollygag with.
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(US, dated, 19th-20th centuries) To effusively (often excessively) display affection.
1946, Captain C. F. Behrens, MC, USN, quoted in Time Magazine, volume 47, part 1, [https://web.archive.org/web/20220117034213/http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,886820,00.html page 74], 1946:
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