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fiddle
verb- to swindle UK, 1590
- If I’d been in the paymaster’s section, they’d have suspected I’d fiddled the books. — John Baxter, A Pound of Paper, p. 122, 2002
- to falsify a personal statement of expenses, or corporate accounts and finances; to fraudulently amend examination or election results UK, 1970
A specialised use of the overall sense (to swindle). - Archer’s secretary denies fiddling expenses. — The Guardian, 7 June 2001
- On 21 July, the WorldCom corporation admitted that it had fiddled the books to the tune of $3.8bn of stockholders’ money. — The Observer, 22 December 2002
▶ fiddle with yourself
to masturbate US- JOHN LENNON: I mean I suppose your first sex experience is fiddlin’ with yourself. — Screw, p. 4, 27 June 1969
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