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mess with
Interfere or associate with; also, annoy, bother. For example, Our group won't mess with those street musicians, or I told him not to mess with me or there would be trouble. [Colloquial; c. 1900]
Example Sentences
Nicklaus called it "crazy" but it is a good golf hole and par is just a number, albeit one that can mess with a player's head.
“You don’t have to mess with removing the yolks, mixing them with mayo and mustard and then piping it back into the egg white.”
As the joke goes, Black people can't really mess with time machines.
“I don’t know what could have happened in that game if I wouldn’t have walked him those first two times. You don’t mess with that. I don’t care how he’s swinging the bat, you don’t mess with that if you don’t have to.”
“The point is, you don’t mess with my kids,” she said.
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