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fiddlesnounpl. of fiddle chiefly Britishan instance of the use of dishonest methods to acquire something of valuethe e-mail was another one of those fiddles from some supposed Nigerian millionaire seeking to transfer funds out of his country buncos(or bunkos), cons, flimflams, frauds, gyps, hustles, scams, shell games, stings, swindles crosses, fixesPonzi schemes, pyramid schemesrackets, rip-offsthimblerigs, three-card montesdevices, dodges, gimmicks, jigs, ploys, schemes, sleights, stratagems, tricks, wilescounterfeits, fakes, forgeries, hoaxes, humbug, phonies(also phoneys), shams to make jerky or restless movementsthe executive fiddled with a pen as she impatiently waited for the meeting to begin fidgets, jerks, jiggles, jigs, squiggles, squirms, thrashes, threshes, tosses, twists, twitches, wiggles, wriggles, writhes flits, flutters, twittersquakes, quivers, shakes, shivers, shudders, tremblespaces relaxes, rests, unwindscalms (down), stills to rob by the use of trickery or threatsconscienceless grifters who had spent their lives fiddling the naive beats, bilks, bleeds, cheats, chisels, chouses, cons, cozens, defrauds, diddles, does, does in, euchres, fleeces, flimflams, gaffs, gyps, hoses(slang), hustles, mulcts, nobbles(British slang), plucks, reams, rips off, rooks, screws, shakes down, shortchanges, shorts, skins, skunks, squeezes, sticks, stiffs, stings, suckers, swindles, thimblerigs, victimizes extorts, wrenches, wrests, wringsclips, gouges, nicks, overcharges, soaksexploits, milksdeceives, dupes, fools, gulls, tricksropes (in)betrays, bitches, double-crossesbamboozles, fast-talks sells a bill of goods to, takes for a ride, takes to the cleaners |