What does louse around mean?

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louse around

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Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.60 in modern English

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British usage; Slang

louses around (present, singular) lousing around (participle, present) loused around (participle, past) loused around (past)

What does louse around mean?: To slack off; to be lazy or a parasite on others.

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