waste one's time

1. 1.

   be lazy or idle

   “Her son is just bumming around all day”

   Synonymsbumbum aroundbum aboutarse aroundarse aboutfuck offloaffrig aroundlounge aroundlollloll aroundlounge about

   Broaderidle

Questions about waste one's time

What does waste one's time mean?

waste one's time means "be lazy or idle".

What is another word for waste one's time?

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 waste one's time a common word?

waste one's time 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.