finagle

verb

🔊/fɪˈneɪɡl/

[transitive, intransitive] (informal, especially North American English)

Verb Forms

present simple I / you / we / they finagle	🔊/fɪˈneɪɡl/ 🔊/fɪˈneɪɡl/
he / she / it finagles	🔊/fɪˈneɪɡlz/ 🔊/fɪˈneɪɡlz/
past simple finagled	🔊/fɪˈneɪɡld/ 🔊/fɪˈneɪɡld/
past participle finagled	🔊/fɪˈneɪɡld/ 🔊/fɪˈneɪɡld/
-ing form finagling	🔊/fɪˈneɪɡlɪŋ/ 🔊/fɪˈneɪɡlɪŋ/

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finagle (something) to behave dishonestly or to obtain something dishonestly欺诈；骗取
- He finagled some tickets for tonight's big game.他骗到了几张今晚大赛的门票。🔊🔊
Word Origin1920s (originally US): from dialect fainaigue ‘cheat’; perhaps from Old French fornier ‘deny’.