Understand flipping idiots caught cheating (8)
I believe the answer is:
twisting
'cheating' is the definition.
The answer and definition can be both acts as well as being singular nouns.
Maybe you can see an association between them that I can't see?
'understand flipping idiots caught' is the wordplay.
'understand' becomes 'twig' (I've seen this before).
'flipping' says the letters should be written in reverse.
'idiots' becomes 'nits' (nit can mean a stupid person).
'caught' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'nits' in reverse letter order is 'stin'.
'twig' enclosing 'stin' is 'TWISTING'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for twisting that I've seen before include "Winding (together); distorting" , "Cheating; distorting" , "Distorting; coiling" , "Bending, contorting" , "Full of bends" .)