Definition of "fiddle" []

• A violin. (noun)
• A member of the violin family. (noun)
• Nautical A guardrail used on a table during rough weather to prevent things from slipping off. (noun)
• Informal Nonsensical, trifling matters: "There are things that are important/beyond all this fiddle” ( Marianne Moore). (noun)
• The act or an instance of cheating or swindling; a fraud. (noun)

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• "The two ran through songs from Sleep With One Eye Open, their recently released album of traditional bluegrass music, and also took requests from the audience during a section of the show they called "fiddle tune request song.""
• "With the Joker playing main fiddle, the villains could be endless."
• "But I guess playing political second fiddle is humiliating enough."