Fool Around

1.  Also, monkey around. Engage in idle or casual activity, putter. For example, Jim loved to fool around with his computer, or She was monkeying around with some figures in hopes of balancing the budget. [Second half of 1800s]
2.  Engage in frivolous activity, waste time. For example, Instead of studying, he spends all his spare time fooling around. Also see fool away.
3.  Engage in flirting or casual sexual acts; also, engage in adultery. For example, He caught the two teenagers fooling around in the basement. [1830s]

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v

Definition: waste time
Antonyms: labor, toil, work

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• Artist: Rachel Sweet
• Rating:
• Release Date: October 06, 1978
• Genre: Rock

Review

If Stiff Records wanted to market Rachel Sweet as an ironic sex symbol, they succeeded only at the irony of forbidden fruit; the picture of her on the back of this disc in a rugby shirt and jeans, head cocked, hands on hips, could grace the cover of Lolita's next edition. Sweet was fully sweet 16 in 1978, though, and pictures aside, "the little girl with the big voice," as the bosses billed her, lived up to that description. Belting, whooping, pleading, and near-weeping through the speakers, she rides the crest of Liam Sternberg and his Spector-ized production (that feel of a marching brass band keeping warm on a snowy morning), embodying the tough, rowdy sides of Brenda Lee and Wanda Jackson, though not so genre-bound as the latter. Sternberg's "Wildwood Saloon" and Elvis Costello's letter-perfect "Stranger in My House" hearken back to Sweet's childhood country records, but Carla Thomas' gleeful "B-A-B-Y," Del Shannon's mournfully up-tempo "I Go to Pieces," and Dusty Springfield's desperate "Stay Awhile" pulsate into new life through her throat, a crackerjack band including Brinsley Schwartz and Lene Lovich swirling faithfully along. Another Sternberg original, "Who Does Lisa Like?," opens with, "Sittin' around in the Firestone parking lot/It's alright!," and climaxes by insisting on the primacy of the title question over starvation in India and war in Baghdad. Only a true believer touched with the power of imputing her true belief could run that one back for a touchdown. ~ Andrew Hamlin, All Music Guide

Tracks

Track Title	Composers	Performers	Time
Just My Style	Liam Sternberg	Rachel Sweet
B-A-B-Y	Isaac Hayes, David Porter	Rachel Sweet
Who Does Lisa Like?	Liam Sternberg	Rachel Sweet
Wildwood Saloon	Liam Sternberg	Rachel Sweet
Stay Awhile	Ivor Raymonde, Michael Hawker	Rachel Sweet
Suspended Animation	Liam Sternberg	Rachel Sweet
It's So Different Here	Liam Sternberg	Rachel Sweet
Cuckoo Clock	Liam Sternberg	Rachel Sweet
Pin a Medal on Mary	Will Birch, John Wicks	Rachel Sweet
Girl With a Synthesizer	Liam Sternberg	Rachel Sweet
Stranger in the House	Elvis Costello	Rachel Sweet

Credits

Rachel Sweet (Vocals), Rachel Sweet (Main Performer), Liam Sternberg (Producer)

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The verb has 2 meanings:

Meaning #1: indulge in horseplay
  Synonyms: horse around, arse around, fool

Meaning #2: commit adultery
  Synonym: play around

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