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Definition of "waggle" []

  • To move (an attached part, for example) with short, quick motions: waggled her foot impatiently. (verb-transitive)
  • To move shakily; wobble: waggled down the steps. (verb-intransitive)
  • A wobbling motion. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "waggle" in a sentence
  • ""The waggle is a practice of the takeaway of the backswing,""
  • "JAY: Right because we heard some of the guys who do service San Francisco, the city itself, and they occasionally talk about the occasional person they see, and they do a little limp wrist waggle, which is like, uh, yeah, okay, fine, you know."
  • "Bees exchange fairly detailed information about food sources through an involuntary reflex known as the waggle dance."