Verb: mill about
- Move about in a confused manner
"The crowd milled about in the square";
- mill, mill around
- Spend time in one place doing little or wasting time
"The high school students like to mill about in the Central Square";
- loiter, lounge, footle [informal], lollygag [N. Amer, informal], loaf [informal], lallygag [N. Amer, informal], hang around, mess about [informal], tarry, linger, lurk, mill around, dillydally [informal], dilly-dally [informal], mooch [Brit, informal]
Derived forms: milling about, milled about, mills about