Usually means: Trick, swindle, or manipulate someone.
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We found 35 dictionaries that define the word diddle:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. diddle: Merriam-Webster
  2. diddle: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. diddle, diddle: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. diddle: Collins English Dictionary
  5. diddle: Vocabulary.com
  6. Diddle, diddle: Wordnik
  7. diddle: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. diddle: Wiktionary
  9. diddle: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. diddle: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. diddle: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Diddle, diddle: Dictionary.com
  13. diddle: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Diddle (disambiguation), Diddle: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Diddle: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. diddle: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. diddle: Rhymezone
  18. diddle: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. diddle: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. Diddle: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  21. diddle: FreeDictionary.org
  22. diddle: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. diddle: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. diddle: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. diddle: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. diddle: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. diddle: Idioms
  2. diddle: Wordcraft Dictionary

Slang (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. diddle, diddle, diddle, diddle, diddle: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. diddle: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  3. Diddle: Dublin Slang and Phrasebook
  4. diddle: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See diddled as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (music, countable) In percussion, two consecutive notes played by the same hand (either RR or LL), similar to the drag, except that by convention diddles are played the same speed as the context in which they are placed.
noun:  (slang, childish, countable) The penis.
noun:  (slang, uncountable) Gin (the drink).
verb:  (transitive, slang) To cheat; to swindle.
verb:  (transitive, slang) To molest.
verb:  (transitive, slang) To masturbate.
verb:  (transitive) To waste time.
verb:  (intransitive) To totter, like a child learning to walk; to daddle.
verb:  (transitive, computing, slang) To manipulate a value at the level of individual bits (binary digits).

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