What is the meaning of dally?

Behave carelessly or indifferently.
- usage: "Play about with a young girl's affection"
- synonyms: toy, play, flirt
Waste time.
- usage: "Get busy-don't dally"
- synonyms: dawdle
Talk or behave amorously, without serious intentions.
- usage: "The guys always try to chat up the new secretaries"; "My husband never flirts with other women"
- synonyms: chat up, flirt, butterfly, coquet, coquette, romance, philander, mash
Consider not very seriously.
- usage: "He is trifling with her"; "She plays with the thought of moving to Tasmania"
- synonyms: trifle, play

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