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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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Jon Graboff's gravity-roping pedal steel forms a kind of sonic through-line as Adams diddles around with honky tonk, Western swing, mountain ballad and other not necessarily complementary motifs.
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It looked like one of those dances, like Cargo X, that Cunningham diddles with on the way to making something grander.
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The unsung hero of the album is drummer Michael Clark, whose paradiddles and other sorts of diddles are just plain dizzying throughout.
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