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fiddle

verb as in mess with, tinker

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“The Details” is a crucial moment on the album, an acknowledgment, with a dour fiddle and harp, that communication may be forever broken.

You simply cannot fiddle around with part-time bowlers for 10 overs; nor can you bowl them very late in the innings.

From BBC

There’s a high and lonesome fiddle sounding the alarm, before a gloriously defiant harmony vocal: “I’m a hard headed woman . . . and I don’t owe ya sh*t.”

From Salon

She enjoys baking and once said she would love to learn the fiddle and play country music.

From BBC

Five years ago, long before it granted immunity from criminal prosecution to the president, the court conferred a kind of legal immunity to anyone who wanted to fiddle with the redistricting process.

From Salon

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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