Usually means: Manipulate or achieve by trickery.
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General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. finagle: Merriam-Webster
  2. finagle: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. finagle: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. finagle: Collins English Dictionary
  5. finagle: Vocabulary.com
  6. Finagle, finagle: Wordnik
  7. finagle: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. finagle: Wiktionary
  9. finagle: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. finagle: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. finagle: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. finagle: Dictionary.com
  13. finagle: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. finagle: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Finagle: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. finagle: Rhymezone
  17. finagle: FreeDictionary.org
  18. finagle: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. finagle: TheFreeDictionary.com
  20. Finagle: World Wide Words
  21. finagle: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. finagle: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. finagle: Encyclopedia

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. finagle: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. finagle: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See finagled as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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verb:  (transitive) To obtain, arrange, or achieve by indirect, complicated and/or intensive efforts.
verb:  (transitive) To obtain, arrange, or achieve by deceitful methods, by trickery.
verb:  (ambitransitive) To cheat or swindle; to use crafty, deceitful methods. (often with "out of" preceding the object)

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