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wiggler en · NOUN

Etymology

From wiggle + -er.

Meanings

  1. Anything that wiggles. ▸ The larva of a mosquito.
  2. (Southern-US) Anything that wiggles. ▸ An earthworm.
  3. Anything that wiggles. ▸ Any of several types of tool for center-finding or edge-finding in manufacturing, especially metalworking.
  4. Anything that wiggles. ▸ A magnet designed to make a beam of charged particles follow a curving path in an accelerator.

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Deriveds

red wiggler

Synonyms

wriggler · wriggler