1 ~ (about / around) to twist and turn your body or part of it with quick short movements:
[V] The baby was wriggling around on my lap. * [VN] She wriggled her toes.
2 [usually +adv./prep.] to move somewhere by twisting and turning your body or part of it:
[V] The fish wriggled out of my fingers. * [V-ADJ] She managed to wriggle free. * [VN] They wriggled their way through the tunnel. * He wriggled himself into a comfortable position.
PHRASALVERBS
wriggle out of sth / out of doing sth (informal, disapproving) to avoid doing sth that you should do, especially by thinking of clever excuses:
He tried desperately to wriggle out of giving a clear answer.
noun [usuallysing.] an act of wriggling
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In this entry, wriggle is tagged as verb.
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