lark around
informal UK also lark about— phrasal verb with lark uk/lɑːk/us/lɑːrk/verb
to behave in a silly way because you think it is funny:
I was woken up by a couple of drunks larking around in the street.
We were just larking about - we didn't mean to do any damage.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Behaving in a silly way
- act/play the goat idiom
- be asking for it/trouble idiom
- be playing at sth idiom
- clown
- cut up
- faff
- fart
- goat
- goof
- goof around
- horse around
- kid
- mess
- monkey
- monkey around
- muck
- muck sb/sth about/around
- piss (sb) about/around
- play around
- spectacle
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