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diddle

PRIMARY MEANINGS OF: diddle

1
v
manipulate manually or in one's mind or imagination
2
v
deprive of by deceit
FULL DEFINITIONS OF: diddle
1

v manipulate manually or in one's mind or imagination

Synonyms:
fiddle, play, toy
Types:
put out, retire
cause to be out on a fielding play
Type of:
manipulate
hold something in one's hands and move it
2

v deprive of by deceit

Synonyms:
bunco, con, defraud, gip, goldbrick, gyp, hornswoggle, mulct, nobble, rook, scam, short-change, swindle, victimize
Types:
short, short-change
cheat someone by not returning him enough money
Type of:
cheat, chisel, rip off
deprive somebody of something by deceit
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