tamper
tam per
- n a tool for tamping (e.g., for tamping tobacco into a pipe bowl or a charge into a drill hole etc.)
- v play around with or alter or falsify, usually secretively or dishonestly
Someone tampered with the documents on my desk - v intrude in other people's affairs or business; interfere unwantedly
- Another part was the "tamper"a casing of metal whose inertia kept the exploding bomb from expanding too rapidly, i.
- But tamper with the sanctity of Broadway? Now you're asking for trouble.
- And as with that deadly container, the tamper-resistant seals on the second bottle appeared untouched.