Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary - dig around

1. If you dig around in a place or container, you search for something in every part of it. I went home to dig around in my closets for some old tapes. = rummage around PHRASAL VERB: V P in n, also V P 2. If you dig around, you try to find information about someone or something. They said, after digging around, the photo was a fake. PHRASAL VERB: V P