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