wabbler

Noun

wobbler (plural wobblers)

1. One who or that which wobbles.
2. A person who is undecided, and might go to either side.
   • Towns fell to him like so many houses of cards; and the fall of each town represented not only an accession to the prestige of the Royalist commander but a physical accession of strength as the wobblers flocked to the successful army.2005, Alfred H. Burne, The Battlefields of England
3. A stone that rocks from side to side as it travels because it is not resting on its running surface.
4. (colloquial) A case that could go either way depending on factors that cannot be controlled.
5. (colloquial) A class of crime that can be charged as a lower penalty or a higher penalty, e.g. a crime punishable as either a misdemeanor or a felony at the discretion of the prosecutor.
6. A fishing lure made to resemble a prey fish and that wobbles in the water; plug, minnow.

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