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plural of fiddle
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(Entry 1 of 2)
chiefly British
an instance of the use of dishonest methods to acquire something of value
- the e-mail was another one of those fiddles from some supposed Nigerian millionaire seeking to transfer funds out of his country
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fiddles
verbpresent tense third-person singular of fiddle
Synonyms & Antonyms of fiddles (Entry 2 of 2)
1
to make jerky or restless movements
- the executive fiddled with a pen as she impatiently waited for the meeting to begin
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2
to rob by the use of trickery or threats
- conscienceless grifters who had spent their lives fiddling the naive
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- beats,
- bilks,
- bleeds,
- cheats,
- chisels,
- chouses,
- cons,
- cozens,
- defrauds,
- diddles,
- does,
- does in,
- euchres,
- fleeces,
- flimflams,
- gaffs,
- gyps,
- hoses
- [slang],
- hustles,
- mulcts,
- nobbles
- [British slang],
- plucks,
- reams,
- rips off,
- rooks,
- screws,
- shakes down,
- shortchanges,
- shorts,
- skins,
- skunks,
- squeezes,
- sticks,
- stiffs,
- stings,
- suckers,
- swindles,
- thimblerigs,
- victimizes
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