fuck around vs mess about

fuck around

verb
  • To fritter aimlessly or distractedly, to procrastinate, to waste time. 

  • To horseplay, joke around, behave immaturely or irresponsibly 

  • To fool around. 

  • To have sex with many partners. 

mess about

verb
  • To play with; to toy with; to waste the time of (a person). 

  • To misbehave 

  • To be in a casual non-committal relationship 

How often have the words fuck around and mess about occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )