juggling

Verb

juggle (third-person singular simple present juggles, present participle juggling, simple past and past participle juggled)

1. To manipulate objects, such as balls, clubs, beanbags, rings, etc. in an artful or artistic manner.
   • She can juggle flaming torches.
2. (dated, intransitive) To perform various magic tricks or circus skills such as the diabolo, devil sticks, hat, and cigar box manipulation.
   • God alone knows where he came from, but he was in the camp one evening juggling for stray coppers in a bowl. Pretty good juggling too it seemed to be, of the usual Indian kind—growing a plant out of a pumpkin seed, turning a stick into a live snake, and the old sword and basket trick that every...1923, Ernest Bramah [pseudonym; Ernest Brammah Smith], “(please specify the page)”, in The Eyes of Max Carrados, London: Grant Richards, →OCLC
3. To handle or manage many tasks at once.
   • He juggled home, school, and work for two years.
4. (ambitransitive) To deceive by trick or artifice.
   • I think they are juggling the company's books.

   Synonyms:

   fudge, massage

5. (archaic, intransitive) To joke or jest.

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