Meaning

2 senses

  1. (Canada, US, intransitive, transitive)To drive or jaunt about, going from place to place without any specific direction or goal.

    Near-synonym: cruise

  2. (idiomatic)To spend one's time idly.

More definitions
  • ride in a car with no particular goal and just for the pleasure of it

Forms

tools around, tooling around, tooled around, tooled around
Base formtool around · to tool around
3rd person singulartools around
Present participletooling around
Past simpletooled around
Past participletooled around

irregular

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theytool around
he, she, ittools around

Past simpleLesson

all personstooled around

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave tooled around
he, she, ithas tooled around

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill tool around

Phrasal verbs

2 phrasal verbs

Synonyms

55 synonyms
cruiseB2cabbageB1idleC2lampA2lingerB2loafB1loiterC2whileA2fool aroundbludgebum aroundclown arounddallydawdle
Close in meaning
  • ride in a car with no particular goal and just for the pleasure of it:joyridetool

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
tonytooA1toolA1toolbartoolboxtoolkittoolshed

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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