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wiggle out of

wiggle out of is the alternative form of wriggle out of.

Meaning of wriggle out of

Verb

wriggle out of (third-person singular simple present wriggles out of, present participle wriggled out of, simple past and past participle wriggled out of)

  1. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see wriggle, out of.
    • The worm wriggled out of the man's pocket.
  2. (transitive) To avoid performing a duty or fulfilling an obligation, by sneaky means.
    • RMT General Secretary Eddie Dempsey claimed the operator was trying to "wriggle out of its agreements and block fair pay for its members".2025 June 25, Richard Wilcock, “Network News: RMT overtime ban prompts XC cancellations warning”, in RAIL, number 1038, page 11

Forms of wiggle out of

third-person singular presentwiggles out of
present participlewiggling out of
past participlewiggled out of
pastwiggled out of

Questions about wiggle out of

What is wiggle out of the alternative form of?
Wiggle out of is the alternative form of wriggle out of.

Words near wiggle out of in the dictionary

  1. wiggish
  2. wiggishness
  3. wiggle
  4. wiggle dress
  5. wiggle dresses
  6. wiggle out of
  7. wiggle room
  8. wiggle seat
  9. wiggle seats
  10. wiggle worm
  11. wiggle worms

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Adapted from Wiktionary: wiggle out of (page history and authors); wriggle out of (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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