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  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of diddle.

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Examples

  • Iniesta diddles past Altintop on the left side of the area, cuts inside and brings a save out of Casillas at his near post.

    Real Madrid v Barcelona – as it happened | Jacob Steinberg 2012

  • If the Taxpayer diddles the Revenue, he may well be prosecuted.

    Archive 2008-02-24 2008

  • If the Taxpayer diddles the Revenue, he may well be prosecuted.

    Labour: Just Another Bunch Of Crooks 2008

  • Though I could twitch the fingers of my right hand, which pleased me so much that I wept, saying, See how the little ones, the…the diddles…the fidgets—how do you call them?

    Wildfire Sarah Micklem 2009

  • Though I could twitch the fingers of my right hand, which pleased me so much that I wept, saying, See how the little ones, the…the diddles…the fidgets—how do you call them?

    Wildfire Sarah Micklem 2009

  • Though I could twitch the fingers of my right hand, which pleased me so much that I wept, saying, See how the little ones, the…the diddles…the fidgets—how do you call them?

    Wildfire Sarah Micklem 2009

  •   Finally, I get the flam paradiddle-diddles going and I begin my accelerando.

    Moe Tucker 2008

  •   She uses fat marching sticks, her hands arthritic, weightless flam paradiddle-diddles tossed off left and right, her accelerando poised and controlled.

    Moe Tucker 2008

  • What about this year's visit from El NiNo, that warm ocean current that diddles with weather patterns and threatens to damage crops?

    Sure Profits, No Tears? 2008

  •   I'm fine with left-handed flam paradiddle-diddles because I'm right-handed, but Mrs. Karash expects me to alternate left and right, and to accelerando, until I'm playing flam paradiddle-diddles fast like syncopated rolls.

    Moe Tucker 2008

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