beat around

(v) : (transitive, informal) To discuss.

(v) : (intransitive, informal) To waste time; to idle or loaf.

(v) : (intransitive, informal) To flit quickly from place to place.

(v) : (intransitive, baseball) To have each of a team's batting line-up positions complete an at-bat in the same half-inning.

(v) : To have a team's first batter of the inning come to bat for a second time (after all of the others in the batting line-up have batted). (See the usage note below.)