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diddleverb to move or act slowlyeven though the hurricane was fast approaching, federal and local polticians wasted precious time diddling crawl, creep, dally, dawdle, delay, dillydally, drag, lag, linger, loiter, lollygag(also lallygag), mope, poke, shilly-shally, tarry fiddle (around), fool around, mess around, monkey (around), play, potter (around), putter (around), triflehang (around or out), idle, loaf, loll, loungeamble, ease, inch, lumber, plod, saunter, shuffle, stagger, strolldecelerate, slow (down or up)filibuster, procrastinate, stall, temporize drag one's feet(also drag one's heels), drop behind, fall behind, hang fire, mark time, take one's time barrel, bolt, career, course, dash, fly, hasten, hotfoot (it), hurry, race, rip, rocket, run, rush, scoot, scud, scurry, speed, tear, whirl, whisk, whiz(or whizz), zip bowl, breeze, dart, hump, hurtle, hustle, scramble, stampedegallop, jog, run, sprint, trotaccelerate, quicken, speed (up)catch up, fast-forward, outpace, outrun, outstrip, overtake to rob by the use of trickery or threatsan unscrupulous Broadway producer diddles little old ladies by persuading them to invest in a surefire flop beat, bilk, bleed, cheat, chisel, chouse, con, cozen, defraud, do, do in, euchre, fiddle, fleece, flimflam, gaff, gyp, hose(slang), hustle, mulct, nobble(British slang), pluck, ream, rip off, rook, screw, shake down, short, shortchange, skin, skunk, squeeze, stick, stiff, sting, sucker, swindle, thimblerig, victimize extort, wrench, wrest, wringclip, gouge, nick, overcharge, soakexploit, milkdeceive, dupe, fool, gull, trickrope (in)betray, bitch, double-crossbamboozle, fast-talk sell a bill of goods to, take for a ride, take to the cleaners in 1786 |