lounge about

Questions about lounge about

What does lounge about mean?

lounge about means "be lazy or idle".

What is another word for lounge about?

Close synonyms include bum, bum around, bum about, arse around, arse about. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is lounge about a common word?

lounge about is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.