She found out that her husband was messing around with her best friend.
He was always messing around with her, and she was right to leave him.
New idioms dictionary. 2014.
mess around (with someone) — AND mess about (with someone); monkey around (with someone) 1. in. to play with someone sexually. □ Those two have been messing around. □ Pete was messing around with Maria, and now she’s storked. 2. in. to waste someone’s time … Dictionary of American slang and colloquial expressions
mess about (with someone) — Go to mess around (with someone) … Dictionary of American slang and colloquial expressions
monkey around with someone — Go to Mess around (with someone) … Dictionary of American slang and colloquial expressions
mess around with — phrasal verb mess with or mess around with [transitive] Word forms mess with : present tense I/you/we/they mess with he/she/it messes with present participle messing with past tense messed with past participle messed with informal 1) mess with… … English dictionary
mess around — {v. phr.} 1. To engage in idle or purposeless activity. * /Come on, you guys, start doing some work, don t just mess around all day!/ 2. {vulgar} To be promiscuous; to indulge in sex with little discrimination as to who the partner is. * /Allen… … Dictionary of American idioms
mess around — {v. phr.} 1. To engage in idle or purposeless activity. * /Come on, you guys, start doing some work, don t just mess around all day!/ 2. {vulgar} To be promiscuous; to indulge in sex with little discrimination as to who the partner is. * /Allen… … Dictionary of American idioms
have an affair with someone — be involved in a love affair with someone, mess around with someone, have a lover s affair with someone … English contemporary dictionary
mess around — (in BRIT, also use mess about) 1) PHRASAL VERB If you mess around or mess about, you spend time doing things without any particular purpose or without achieving anything. [V P] We were just messing around playing with paint... [V P] Stop messing… … English dictionary
mess around — phrasal verb mess about or mess around Word forms mess about : present tense I/you/we/they mess about he/she/it messes about present participle messing about past tense messed about past participle messed about British informal 1) [intransitive]… … English dictionary
mess around/about with — interfere with we don t want outsiders messing around with our schools ■ informal engage in a sexual relationship with (someone, esp. the partner of another person) … Useful english dictionary
