tamper

Reading level: hard

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

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noun a tool for tamping (e.g., for tamping tobacco into a pipe bowl or a charge into a drill hole etc.)
verb play around with or alter or falsify, usually secretively or dishonestly
verb intrude in other people's affairs or business; interfere unwantedly

From tamp + -er.

“Don't tamper with Holy Writ. — The Works of Rudyard Kipling: One Volume Edition, Rudyard Kipling
You tampered with the Projector. — Astounding Stories of Super-Science January 1930, Unknown
Unknowingly, you tamper with tremendous issues." — The Insidious Dr. Fu Manchu, Sax Rohmer

tamp, tamping bar

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