~ sth (from / out of sb) (informal) to get sth that you or another person wants by persuading sb or by a clever plan:
[VN] She had wangled an invitation to the opening night. * I'll try to wangle some money out of my parents. * We should be able to wangle it so that you can start tomorrow. * He managed to wangle his way onto the course. * [VNN] He had wangled her a seat on the plane.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for wangle is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is wangle a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, wangle is tagged as verb.
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