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lollygags

verb , present tense third-person singular of lollygag

variants: also lallygags

Synonyms and Antonyms of lollygags

to move or act slowly

accused the government of lollygagging while survivors of the earthquake continued to live in the most wretched conditions

Synonyms of lollygags

crawls, creeps, dallies, dawdles, delays, diddles, dillydallies, drags, lags, lingers, loiters, mopes, pokes, shilly-shallies, tarries

Words Related to lollygags

fiddles (around), fools around, messes around, monkeys (around), plays, potters (around), putters (around), trifles

hangs (around or out), idles, loafs, lolls, lounges

ambles, eases, inches, lumbers, plods, saunters, shuffles, staggers, strolls

decelerates, slows (down or up)

filibusters, procrastinates, stalls, temporizes

Phrases Synonymous with lollygags

drags one's feet (also drags one's heels), drops behind, falls behind, hangs fire, marks time, takes one's time

Near Antonyms of lollygags

bowls, breezes, darts, humps, hurtles, hustles, scrambles, stampedes

gallops, jogs, runs, sprints, trots

accelerates, quickens, speeds (up)

catches up, fast-forwards, outpaces, outruns, outstrips, overtakes

Antonyms of lollygags

barrels, bolts, careers, courses, dashes, flies, hastens, hotfoots (it), hurries, races, rips, rockets, runs, rushes, scoots, scuds, scurries, speeds, tears, whirls, whisks, whizzes, zips

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