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wriggle room

wriggle room noun: wiggle room.

Noun

wriggle room (uncountable)

  1. Wiggle room.
    • This state of affairs enhanced the empire's security and created a certain wriggle room for the policy-makers in Berlin.2012, Christopher Clark, The Sleepwalkers, Penguin, published 2013, page 141
    • Such highly intensive deployment left little wriggle room, something with which Dunster is all too familiar. "It hasn't all been beer and skittles," he says dryly.2022 October 5, Nick Brodrick, “Pendolinos: a huge role to play”, in RAIL, number 967, page 41

Questions about wriggle room

What does wriggle room mean?
Wriggle room means wiggle room.
What part of speech is wriggle room?
Wriggle room is a noun.

Words near wriggle room in the dictionary

  1. wrig
  2. wrigged
  3. wrigging
  4. wriggle
  5. wriggle out of
  6. wriggle room
  7. wriggled
  8. wriggled out of
  9. wriggler
  10. wrigglers
  11. wriggles

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