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laze about (third-person singular simple present lazes about, present participle lazing about, simple past and past participle lazed about)

  1. (intransitive, informal) To do nothing in particular; to be idle.
    • 1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, [], →OCLC, part I:
      No, I don’t like work. I had rather laze about and think of all the fine things that can be done.
    • 1929, Lloyd C. Douglas, chapter 15, in Magnificent Obsession[1], New York: P.F. Collier, page 245:
      “I think it’s simply marvellous,” enthused Joyce, into the mirror, “that I’ve been able to adjust so quickly to office routine, don’t you? . . . After all these years of indulging myself, sleeping late, pottering, lazing about! []

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