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For context, the three main characters are visiting a museum and being sneaky by doing it while their parents are out. I know the gist of the line is "We're the heretics for taking advantage of our parents being out on work and [プラついてる] since noon like this?" In my research I keep finding references to plastic, which doesn't seem right, and I don't know of any good sources of slang or common sayings.

親が仕事で外出してるのをいいことに、こうして昼間からプラついてる私たちの方が異端ってわけか。

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  • Are you sure it's not ブラついてる? Also, including the title might help. (If it's part of the official subtitle or something like that, typos might be less likely.)
    – Yusuke Matsubara
    Nov 13 at 8:29

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プラつく is one-time alternative of the verb ぶらつく, which is also contained in dictionaries. That in your sentence falls on the second usage of this entry.

Since ぶらつく is an onomatopoeia-related word (cf. ぶらぶら), such a change in sound is relatively easy to be accepted/understood, even though highly rhetorical.

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  • If ぶらつく is "to stroll around" and non-voiced sounds are perceived as more feminine, perhaps プラつく is "to prance around"?
    – Karl Knechtel
    Nov 13 at 6:10
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    ぶらつく/ぷらつく or ぶらぶら/ぷらぷら are not an imitation of any actual sound, so the quoted discussion is difficult to apply directly. This or any other articles describing difference between ぶらぶら/ぷらぷら(/ふらふら) probably help us understand their nuances. I personally feels ぷらぷら/ぷらつく puts more emphasis on freeness and haphazardness compared with ぶらぶら/ぶらつく.
    – rk03
    Nov 13 at 7:10

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