Definition of "wiggle" []

• To move back and forth with quick irregular motions: The gelatin wiggled on the plate. (verb-intransitive)
• To move or proceed with a twisting or turning motion; wriggle: wiggled restlessly in her chair; wiggled through the crowd. (verb-intransitive)
• To insinuate or extricate oneself by sly or subtle means: wiggled out of a social engagement. (verb-intransitive)
• To cause to move back and forth with quick irregular motions: wiggle a loose tooth. (verb-transitive)
• To make (one's way, for example) by or as if by wiggling: The pitcher wiggled his way out of a jam. (verb-transitive)

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.

• "“Every deal contains a certain amount of what my son likes to call wiggle room.”"
• "DEFENSE SECRETARY: Well, there is some so - called wiggle room as such in terms of the flexibility."
• "For though the whole fire had not been put out, a good bit of it had, and what remained smelled very largely of burnt Marsh-wiggle, which is not at all an enchanting smell."