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A member of a royal or noble household who provided entertainment, as with jokes or antics; a jester.
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Archaic A mentally deficient person; an idiot.
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Informal A person with a talent or enthusiasm for a certain activity: a dancing fool; a fool for skiing.
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One who acts unwisely on a given occasion: I was a fool to have quit my job.
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phrasal-verb
Fool around Informal To engage in casual, often promiscuous sexual acts.
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Fool around Informal To engage in frivolous activity; make fun.
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Fool around Informal To engage in idle or casual activity; putter: was fooling around with the old car in hopes of fixing it.
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adjective
Informal Foolish; stupid: off on some fool errand or other.
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verb-intransitive
Informal To behave comically; clown.
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Informal To feign; pretend: He said he had a toothache but he was only fooling.
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Informal To speak or act facetiously or in jest; joke: I was just fooling when I said I had to leave.
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To engage in idle or frivolous activity.
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idiom
Play To act in an irresponsible or foolish manner.
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Play To behave in a playful or comical manner.
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