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| 1. | to trick, swindle, or cheat (a person) (often fol. by out of): He finagled the backers out of a fortune. |
| 2. | to get or achieve (something) by guile, trickery, or manipulation: to finagle an assignment to the Membership Committee. |
| 3. | to practice deception or fraud; scheme. |
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v. fi·na·gled, fi·na·gling, fi·na·gles Informal v. tr.
v. intr. To use crafty, deceitful methods. [Probably from dialectal fainaigue, to cheat.] fi·na'gler n. |
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finagle
1926, Amer.Eng., possibly a variant of Eng. dial. fuinaigue "to cheat or renege" (at cards), of unknown origin.
| Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper |
| finagle | |
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| achieve something by means of trickery or devious methods [syn: wangle] |
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