Usually means: Cheating or fiddling, often minor.
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General (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. diddling: Merriam-Webster
  2. diddling: Collins English Dictionary
  3. diddling: Vocabulary.com
  4. diddling: Wordnik
  5. diddling: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. diddling: Wiktionary
  7. diddling: Dictionary.com
  8. diddling: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. diddling: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. diddling: Idioms

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. diddling, diddling: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. diddling: The Folk File
  3. diddling: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (diddle)

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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