stand around

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Verb

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stand around (third-person singular simple present stands around, present participle standing around, simple past and past participle stood around)

  1. (intransitive) To stand without doing anything; to do nothing productive; to waste time.
    Why are some people working and some are standing around?
    We've just been standing around until you got here.