Green’s Dictionary of Slang

(US) bad treatment, messing about, time-wasting; also of a person; thus play fuckaround v., to treat someone badly or contemptuously.

1965		H.S. Thompson letter 18 Apr. in Proud Highway (1997) 509: My good time badass fuckaround is going out of style.
1979		in H.S. Thompson Great Shark Hunt (1980) 117: A gig that [...] was a king-hell, highlife fuckaround from start to finish.
1993		B. Moore Lex. of Cadet Lang. 154: usage: ‘What a fuckaround this exercise is turning out to be!’.
2000		J.J. Connolly Layer Cake 42: It was all a bit of a fuckin game back then compared with now, it was a fuck-about, cops and robbers.
2001		S. King Dreamcatcher 88: He spared one glance at the woman who had caused all this fuckarow.
2011		J.J. Connolly Viva La Madness 198: Where the fuck you been [...] This isn’t a fuckabout.