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  1. To waste time in voluptuous pleasures, or in idleness; to trifle.
    • Calamy
      We have trifled too long already; it is madness to dally any longer.
    • Barrow
      We have put off God, and dallied with his grace.
  2. To interchange caresses, especially of a sexual nature; to use fondling; to wanton; to sport (compare dalliance)
    • Shakespeare
      Not dallying with a brace of courtesans.
  3. To delay unnecessarily; to while away.
  4. To wind the lasso rope around the saddle pummel after the roping of an animal
    • 2003, Jameson Parker, An Accidental Cowboy, page 89:
      The end of the top rope he dallied around the gooseneck trailer hitch.


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