0 past simple and past participle of fiddle --
1 to act dishonestly in order to get something for yourself, or to change something dishonestly, especially to your advantage: --
2 to move things about or touch things with no particular purpose: --
He is quite adept at fiddling figures, as was shown when he fiddled the hospital waiting lists.
He said that the figures had been fiddled.
The franchise is being fixed and fiddled by means of the poll tax.
If one multiplies that up and down the country one can see that that is how the figures have been fiddled for a considerable time.
We have fiddled figures on the reclassification of the working families tax credit and a series of other things.
There is no question of pensioners being cheated or fiddled.
However, some economic organisations believe that although the figures are not fiddled, they are not necessarily accurate.
What he means is that they fiddled it.
