Finagle

Verb

 * 1)  To obtain, arrange, or achieve by indirect and usually deceitful methods.
 * ...finagle a day off from work.
 * 1)  To cheat or swindle; to use crafty, deceitful methods. (often with "out of" preceding the object)
 * ...shady stockbrokers who finagle their clients out of fortunes.

Derived terms

 * finagler

Thesaurus
angle, beat, beguile of, bilk, brew, bunco, burn, cabal, cheat, chisel, chouse, chouse out of, cog, cog the dice, collude, complot, con, concoct, connive, conspire, contrive, cook up, countermine, counterplot, cozen, crib, defraud, diddle, do in, do out of, engineer, euchre, finesse, flam, fleece, flimflam, fob, frame, frame up, fudge, gerrymander, gouge, gull, gyp, hatch, hatch a plot, hatch up, have, hocus, hocus-pocus, intrigue, jockey, lay a plot, machinate, maneuver, manipulate, mulct, operate, pack the deal, pigeon, play games, plot, practice fraud upon, pull strings, rig, rook, scam, scheme, screw, sell gold bricks, shave, shortchange, stack the cards, stick, sting, swindle, take a dive, thimblerig, throw a fight, victimize, wangle

Etymology
Americanism from the 1920s, perhaps combining an alteration of fainaigue: with the suffix ; compare haggle:.

Translations

 * Dutch: ontfutselen, ritselen
 * French:, se faire pistonner, magouiller
 * Hungarian:, rászed


 * Italian:
 * Spanish:


 * Dutch: foefelen, ritselen, zwendelen
 * French: filouter, truander, ,  ,  ,  ,
 * Hungarian:


 * Italian:
 * Russian: жульничать
 * Spanish: hacer trampas,,  ,  ,  ,  ,  ,

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