hang around vs mess about

hang around

verb
  • To spend time or be friends. (especially to hang around with someone) 

  • To stay, linger, or loiter. 

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 hang around and mess about occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )