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What does dilly-dallied mean?

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Verb
  1. simple past tense and past participle of dilly-dally
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They have been in power now going on five years. They dilly-dallied on this issue four, five years.
Somewhere along the line Microsoft had dilly-dallied with the basic Windows communication settings and now it just wasn't working.
In fact, had they not dilly-dallied, the book would have been out much sooner.
From there the winger raced straight towards David de Gea's goal but Traoré dilly-dallied and the threat fizzled out.
If the batsmen had just dilly-dallied a bit, they would have been off for lunch, which is, I think, what they were expecting to do.
He wouldn't necessarily have chosen that path, but Glamorgan have dilly-dallied over the negotiations.

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