1. The deliberate act of delaying and playing instead of working
   - dalliance, trifling

1. Take one's time; proceed slowly
   - linger 
2. Waste time
   - dally 
3. Hang (back) or fall (behind) in movement, progress, development, etc.
   - lag, fall back, fall behind

See also: dawdler, fall

Type of: act, behave, delay, do, follow, holdup, move

• in that location
• in that respect
• in the adjacent apartment
• in the adjacent house
• in the air
• in the altogether
• in the bargain
• in the beginning
• in the black
• in the buff
• in the dark
• in the end
• in the first place
• in the flesh
• in the lead
• in the least
• in the long run
• in the lurch
• in the main
• in the meantime
• in the midst
• in the nick of time
• in the public eye
• in the raw
• in the same breath