Fiddle | Mean of fiddle in English Dictionary

/ˈfɪdl̟/

• Noun
• a dishonest way of getting money
1. arrested for a tax fiddle
• to have a less important position or status than someone or something else
1. a former star athlete who is not happy to play second fiddle as he nears the end of his career
2. He's not happy to play second fiddle to the younger players on the team.
• Verb
• to play a violin
1. Nero fiddled while Rome burned.
2. a fiddling competition

• to secretly change (something, such as information) in a harmful or dishonest way
1. fiddle [=fudge] the accounts/books
• to spend time in activity that does not have a real purpose
1. They spent hours just fiddling [=fooling] around when they should have been working.
• to move or handle (something) with your hands or fingers in a nervous way
1. She was nervously fiddling with her pen as she waited for the test to start.
• to change or handle (something, such as the controls of a machine) in a way that shows you are not sure what to do
1. He was fiddling [=tinkering] with the controls of the television, trying to get it to work.
• to change (something) in a harmful or foolish way
1. It became clear that someone had fiddled [=tampered] with the equipment.