Achieve something by means of trickery or devious methods

Usage examples of wangling.

Billy Bob was so shook thinking of Miss Pitty and her set that he let his wangling take a lead and lost three full seconds and then it was over and Lex had his ribbon and a few brews and then he buttoned up the hood and blinked home and in the gathering darkness the skies began to take on their blackness and the lone star of the globular cluster out there in the big lonesome was low and the galaxy hadn't risen yet.

As long as she was wangling for information, I thought I'd wangle some myself.

He went on the bum, drifting about, living hand to mouth off odd, unsavory jobs, now and then wangling a berth in a ship that’d take him to some different system.