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fiddle

English

  1. 🔊 bowed stringed instrument that is the highest member of the violin family
  2. 🔊 play on a violin
    “Zuckerman fiddled that song very nicely”
  3. 🔊 play the violin or fiddle
  4. 🔊 commit fraud and steal from one's employer
    “We found out that she had been fiddling for years”
  5. 🔊 avoid (one's assigned duties)
    “The derelict soldier shirked his duties”
  6. 🔊 try to fix or mend
    “Can you tinker with the T.V. set--it's not working right”
  7. 🔊 play around with or alter or falsify, usually secretively or dishonestly
    “Someone tampered with the documents on my desk”
  8. 🔊 manipulate manually or in one's mind or imagination
    “She played nervously with her wedding ring”

Spanish

  1. 🔊 violín fiddle
  2. 🔊 trapichear to fiddle, scheme
  3. 🔊 chanchullar to fiddle, to manipulate
  4. 🔊 tejemaneje fiddle, shady deal (fraud)
  5. 🔊 maquillar to fiddle, massage (numbers, data)

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