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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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But these attempts are diddling around the edges of a massive health catastrophe, a viral Katrina.
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all 2004), serial photographs show the artist's disembodied hand making hilariously inappropriate contact with various items on store shelves--groping a basketball, probing some sort of pink nozzle on a children's toy, diddling the underside of what appears to be a stuffed animal--or poking and caressing assorted orifices in walls and floors, like a horny architectural fetishist.
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But instead of using his speed and quickness to ignite the Kings' dump-and-chase offense, he started diddling with the puck and grinding the team to a halt.
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