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Answer for the clue "Cheat to get violin ", 6 letters:
fiddle

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Word definitions for fiddle in dictionaries

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Fiddle \Fid"dle\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Fiddled ; p. pr. & vb. n. Fiddling .] To play on a fiddle. Themistocles . . . said he could not fiddle, but he could make a small town a great city. --Bacon. To keep the hands and fingers actively moving as a fiddler ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., "play upon a fiddle," from fiddle (n.); the figurative sense of "to act nervously, make idle movements, move the hands or something held in them in an idle, ineffective way" is from 1520s. Related: Fiddled ; fiddling .

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context music English) Any of various bowed string instruments, often used to refer to a violin when played in any of various traditional styles, as opposed to classical violin. 2 A kind of dock (''Rumex pulcher'') with leaf shaped like the musical ...

Usage examples of fiddle.

Scarlet clusters of acne stood out on his cheeks, and his glasses, retro Buddy Holly, were smudged at the corners where he was fiddling with them.

I had five boxes of Fiddle Faddle, two bags of Double-Stuff Oreo cookies, a ten-pack of Snickers bars, two bags of Fritos and one of Doritos, seven Gogurts in a variety of flavors, one bag of Chips Ahoy chocolate chip cookies, a box of Count Chocula, a two-pound bag of Skittles, and a six-pack of Yoo-Hoo locked in my room.

Gaelic song, in the Minor Key, deep and throbbing and full of patient despair and ambitionless longing-he had the Irish fiddle sound in it, the hoarse dark harmony of the lower strings played together in a plea that sounded more purely human than any sound made by child, man or woman.

Five days had passed since the wizard had run the axolotls through the poultice, and Professor Wurzle was fit as a fiddle, as he liked to say while slapping himself on the chest.

But while Batt fiddled around with his files of registered candidates, Rafe thought, he would go hunting on his own.

He stood there in the moonlight, shifting nervously from one foot to the other, fiddling with the bugle, shaking it angrily, testing it against his lips.

Vanessa who had been fiddling with the camcorder glanced up and gave a loud gasp of amazement making Zoe look around.

Cora fiddled with her translator, struggling to bring sense out of cetacean chaos.

Svengali singing with her voice, just as you hear Joachim play a chaconne of Bach with his fiddle!

Jaroslav was ill and were still caught up in the spell of the music, now without the first fiddle and clarinet, whose silence gave the cimbalom player a chance to excel, accompanied only by the second fiddle and bass.

She found the maintenance access and a few seconds fiddling with a coder let her inside.

Fiddle was only an upright pole, five feet tall, at the bottom of which was attached a coiled spring that rested on the bandstand flooring.

Young Doty, the adjutant, fiddled nervously with his pen and tried to go on signing papers, but failed.

Briefly, putting two and two together, six sixteen which he pointedly turned a deaf ear to, Antonio and so forth, jockeys and esthetes and the tattoo which was all the go in the seventies or thereabouts even in the house of lords because early in life the occupant of the throne, then heir apparent, the other members of the upper ten and other high personages simply following in the footsteps of the head of the state, he reflected about the errors of notorieties and crowned heads running counter to morality such as the Cornwall case a number of years before under their veneer in a way scarcely intended by nature, a thing good Mrs Grundy, as the law stands, was terribly down on though not for the reason they thought they were probably whatever it was except women chiefly who were always fiddling more or less at one another it being largely a matter of dress and all the rest of it.

I suppose he and Gecko had been playing somewhere, for Gecko had his fiddle.