Usually means: Violin used in folk music.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. fiddle: Merriam-Webster
  2. fiddle: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. fiddle: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. fiddle: Collins English Dictionary
  5. fiddle: Vocabulary.com
  6. Fiddle, fiddle: Wordnik
  7. fiddle: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. fiddle: Wiktionary
  9. fiddle: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. fiddle: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. fiddle: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. fiddle: Dictionary.com
  13. fiddle (n.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. fiddle: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. FidDle, Fiddle (film), Fiddle: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Fiddle: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. fiddle: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. fiddle: Rhymezone
  19. fiddle: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. fiddle: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Fiddle: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  22. fiddle: FreeDictionary.org
  23. fiddle: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. fiddle: TheFreeDictionary.com
  25. fiddle: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Fiddle: Classical Music Guide

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. fiddle: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. fiddle: Idioms

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. fiddle: LITTLE EXPLORERS(TM) Picture Dictionary

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. fiddle, fiddle, fiddle, fiddle, fiddle, fiddle, fiddle, fiddle, fiddle: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. fiddle: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  3. Fiddle: Urban Dictionary

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)
  2. Fiddle: Latitude Mexico

(Note: See fiddled as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A violin, a small unfretted stringed instrument with four strings tuned (lowest to highest) G-D-A-E, usually held against the chin, shoulder, chest or on the upper thigh and played with a bow (see also usage notes below).
noun:  (usually proscribed) Any of various other bowed stringed instruments, particularly those of the violin family when played non-classically.
noun:  A violinist, or fiddler, in a band.
noun:  Something resembling a violin, or fiddle, in shape, particularly:
noun:  (biology) A dock (Rumex pulcher) with leaves supposed to resemble the musical instrument.
noun:  A long pole pulled by a draft animal to drag loose straw, hay, etc.
noun:  A rack for drying pottery after glazing.
noun:  (figurative) A clown; an unserious person entertaining a group.
noun:  (figurative) Unskillful or unartful behavior, particularly when showy and superficially pleasing.
noun:  (informal) A scam; a fraud or swindle.
noun:  (informal) A workaround; a quick and less than perfect solution for some flaw or problem.
noun:  (especially nautical) Any rail or device that prevents items from sliding off a table, stove, etc. in rough water.
noun:  (UK slang, obsolete) An arrest warrant.
noun:  (UK slang, obsolete) A watchman's rattle.
noun:  (UK slang, obsolete) A trifling amount.
verb:  (intransitive) To play the fiddle or violin, particularly in a folk or country style.
verb:  (informal, transitive) To fraudulently manipulate (records, accounts, etc.) in order to cheat or swindle.
verb:  (intransitive) To fidget or play; to fuss; to idly amuse oneself, to act aimlessly, idly, or frivolously, particularly out of nervousness or restlessness; see also fiddle with.
verb:  (informal, intransitive) Synonym of tinker (“to make small adjustments or improvements”); see also fiddle with.
verb:  (intransitive, UK, slang, obsolete) To do odd jobs for money.

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