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finagle
 
SYLLABICATION:fi·na·gle
PRONUNCIATION:  f-ngl
VERB:Inflected forms: fi·na·gled, fi·na·gling, fi·na·gles
Informal
TRANSITIVE VERB:1. To obtain or achieve by indirect, usually deceitful methods: finagle a day off from work. 2. To cheat; swindle: shady stockbrokers who finagle their clients out of fortunes.
INTRANSITIVE VERB: To use crafty, deceitful methods.
ETYMOLOGY:Probably from dialectal fainaigue, to cheat.
OTHER FORMS:fi·nagler —NOUN
 
 
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