Verb: mill around
- Move about in a confused manner
"Tourists milled around the museum entrance";
- mill, mill about
- Spend time in one place doing little or wasting time
"The high school students like to mill around 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 about, dillydally [informal], dilly-dally [informal], mooch [Brit, informal]
Derived forms: milled around, mills around, milling around