weasel
noun
any small carnivore of the genus Mustela, of the family Mustelidae, having a long, slender body and feeding chiefly on small rodents.
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
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Harriman is strongly for it, Russell strongly opposed; Kefauver and Kerr are weaseling.
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