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weasel
verb- to use ambiguous language in an attempt to equivocate on the meaning US, 1956
- Yeah, he weasels it, but it still says I was one of those guys and I wasn’t. — Elmore Leonard, Be Cool, p. 103, 1999
- to use cunning to achieve your end; to cheat UK, 1975
- [S]he weasled her daddy out of a crisp twenty-dollar bill[.] — Sandra Brown, Slow Heat in Heaven, p. 169, 1988
- Smarr had grown obsessed with the notion that Owsley had weasled a friend of his out of two thousand dollars[.] — Ron Powers, Dangerous Water, p. 206, 1999
▶ weasel out; weasel your way out
to avoid a responsibility or obligation, especially in a sly or underhand manner UK, 1962- [H]e weasled out of it by telling her he could not come over because his wife would be jealous. — Mary Nicholas, Change in the Context of Group Therapy, p. 134, 1984
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