1. A person who is regarded as treacherous or sneaky
   "The office weasel always managed to take credit for others' work"
    
2. Small carnivorous mammal with short legs and elongated body and neck
   "The weasel darted quickly through the underbrush"

1. [informal] Be deliberately ambiguous or unclear in order to mislead or withhold information
   - beat around the bush [informal], equivocate, tergiversate, prevaricate, palter [archaic], beat about the bush [informal]
    
2. Do through cunning and deceit
   "He tried to weasel his way out of the contract"

Derived forms: weasels, weaselling, weaseled, weaseling, weaselled

Type of: actor, disinform, doer, misinform, mislead, mustelid, musteline, musteline mammal, worker

Part of: genus Mustela, Mustela

Encyclopedia: Weasel