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vb. To try to obtain something by subtle indirect means: political manoeuvres, suggestion, etc.
Usage examples of "angle for".
To my right, the hill rose at a thirty-degree angle for a hundred yards or so before it crested and curved down to the lake.
They looked over a chest-high wall and saw the beveled concrete band that rimmed the hole, dropping at an angle for about two hundred meters.
The pool hall itself was two pool tables long, with enough space between to allow folk to angle for a tricky shot.
He examined the door more closely, judging the best angle for the initial cut.
Though there be many of these fishes in the delicate river Dove, and in Trent, and some other smaller rivers, as that which runs by Salisbury, yet he is not so general a fish as the Trout, nor to me so good to eat or to angle for.
A voluptuous redhead, her breasts all but bared in a skintight emerald green gown, was the next to attach herself to Ronsard's arm and angle for an introduction.