fiddle // fiddles, fiddling, fiddled
1 If you fiddle with something, you keep moving it or touching
VB
it with your fingers.
He sat nervously fiddling with his spectacles.
2 When people fiddle something such as an account, they alter
VB WITH OBJ
it dishonestly to get money for themselves; an informal use
He had fiddled the figures in the transaction.
· fiddling
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A lot of fiddling goes on in these companies.
3 A fiddle is a dishonest action or scheme to get money.
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Laing had worked some fiddle.
4 A fiddle is also a violin.
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5 If you play second fiddle to someone, your position is
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less important than theirs in something that you are doing together.