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diddle
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1.diddle - To work with or modify in a not particularly serious manner. "I diddled a copy of ADVENT so it didn't double-space all the time." "Let's diddle this piece of code and see if the problem goes away."

See tweak and twiddle.
2.diddle - The action or result of diddling.

See also tweak, twiddle, frob.
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Byline: Mrs Beryl Cooper WHEN we did our football "dream team" at work, I called my team The Back Entry Diddlers after the cartoon strip, that was in the ECHO just after the war.
Letter: Feed back; Flash back by Liverpool Echo (Liverpool, England)
Like the classic pioneering diddlers who put a creative spin on Yankee ingenuity, the Fields manipulator kept on the move.
The henpecked hustler by Gehring, Wes D. / USA Today (Magazine)
The South-West has the biggest diddlers with dishonest punters twice as likely to put in dodgy expenses claims and fiddle their taxes as those in the South-East.
Business news by The Journal (Newcastle, England)
 
 
 
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