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finagle
CIDE DICTIONARY
finagle, v. i. & t.
to achieve something by means of trickery or devious methods. [WordNet 1.5]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
finagle, v.intr. & tr. colloq. act or obtain dishonestly.
Derivative
finagler n.
Etymology
dial. fainaigue cheat
THESAURUS
finagle
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, wangleFor further exploring for "finagle" in Webster Dictionary Online