Beat
Beat verb - To rob by the use of trickery or threats.
Usage example: the screenwriter has filed a lawsuit, accusing the production company of beating him out of his share of the film's net profits
Fiddle
Fiddle verb - To rob by the use of trickery or threats.
Usage example: conscienceless grifters who had spent their lives fiddling the naive
How words are described
Both words in one sentence
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The now-freeware DOS fighter Xenophage Alien Bloodsport allows you to beat up Barney if you fiddle around with the config files.
Source: Easter Egg - Basically, meat-and-potatoes, "real" country with Three Chords and the Truth, a honky-tonk beat, and fiddle and steel aplenty.
Source: Reviewer Standard Comparisons - The Fairness In Hell Act is passed, requiring the Robot Devil to release a soul (and a solid gold fiddle) from hell if someone can beat him in a fiddle contest. (Futurama)
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Fiddle and Beat. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 22, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/beat/fiddle
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