1 [V] ~ (with sth) to keep touching or moving sth with your hands, especially because you are bored or nervous:
He was fiddling with his keys while he talked to me.
2 [VN] (informal) to change the details or figures of sth in order to try to get money dishonestly, or gain an advantage:
to fiddle the accounts * She fiddled the books (= changed a company's financial records) while working as an accountant.
3 [V] (informal) to play music on the violin
PHRASALVERBS
fiddle about / around to spend your time doing things that are not important
fiddle about / around with sth
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Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
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This entry for fiddle is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is fiddle a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, fiddle is tagged as verb.
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