A tool for tamping (e.g., for tamping tobacco into a pipe bowl or a charge into a drill hole etc.)
Play around with or alter or falsify, usually secretively or dishonestly.
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Examples for "monkey "
Examples for "monkey "
1 He took the child away and put the monkey in its place.
2 We must go lower down in the animal scale, to the monkey .
3 Soon the monkey learned how to sell wild chickens in the market.
4 The monkey climbed to the roof of the house and sat there.
5 Albert became waterboy; Earl was powder monkey , in charge of all blasting.
1 Having consumed the said sweet, she continued to fiddle with the paper.
2 One I knew played the fiddle ; another preached Socialism in Hyde Park.
3 No sharp young troopers, fit as a fiddle and ready to fight.
4 This bank will be blue in a few weeks; and fiddle - heads everywhere.
5 The fuss - and - fiddle days with parallel-sided cracks gave way to plug and chug.
To intrude in other people's affairs or business; interfere unwantedly.
1 Generics manufacturers said they do not view tamper resistance as the answer.
2 There are things in the world with which we may not tamper .
3 You have no right to tamper with the one or the other.
4 No one could tamper with the coating now without it being obvious.
5 He never had the ghost of a chance to tamper with it.
6 Perhaps it was not right to tamper with the powers of darkness.
7 He did not tamper with the first KEKEK, nor with the second.
8 I think he believed his beauty was too important to tamper with.
9 It is not mine, but I say-bewarehow you tamper with it.
10 You will not even be able to tamper with a single unit.
11 It is not his wish to tamper with God's drama of creation.
12 You think the plot now is to tamper with the big net?
13 But, my child, do not tamper with thy inclinations through heedless curiosity.
14 Turns out, people don't like it when you tamper with their diet.
15 Surely you would not tamper with us at such a moment, Erskine?
16 That system uses blockchain, the technology behind bitcoin, to create a tamper - proof record.
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