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I've just come across "〜していたりして" at the end of a sentence in a post on
Facebook, so it's probably very casual. Does anyone know the correct meaning
and typical usage?
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What is the meaning of 〜たりして?
I'm not sure what part you're stuck on, and we can give more relevant answers
most of the time if we know the context, but here we go:

`している` is the present-continuous short form of the verb `する` (to do).

The `〜たり` suffix indicates an incomplete list of one or more actions (more on
that [here](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/q/5681/1272)), for example

> 新聞を読んだり、コーヒーを飲んだりする  
>  Read a newspaper, drink coffee, and so on. (or)  
>  Do such things as read a newspaper and drink coffee.

So the best translation I can give without the context here is:

> 〜していたりして  
>  Doing such things as ~

As for why the final `する` is in て-form, that would be easier to answer if we
could see the full sentence.
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たりして is used to posit some event as a possibility but something you are not
sure about. For example, about the future:

> 10年後に大金持ちになっていたりして。

From the nature of this expression meaning "not being sure", it is also used
as a hedge when you want to be modest and a bit comical:

> ひょっとして、さっきのことでまだ怒ってたりして。
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