wiggle room

noun

: leeway, latitude

a contract with wiggle room for further negotiations

Synonyms of wiggle room

• slack
• space

Examples of wiggle room in a Sentence

The salesman has some wiggle room to reduce the price of the car.

the language of the contract is vague and leaves too much wiggle room

Recent Examples on the Web

There ain't a lot of wiggle room in the budget for a $25K fine. — Zach Dean Outkick, FOXNews.com, 11 Nov. 2026

That purgatory left such enough wiggle room to argue the timing was entirely unfair. — Dana O’Neil, CNN Money, 10 Nov. 2026

For instance, the tandem OLED panel requires no backlighting, which gave Apple precious wiggle room to reduce the system's overall thickness. — Joe Osborne, PC Magazine, 5 Nov. 2026

World leaders embraced the wiggle room this theory provided them. — Katie Worth, ProPublica, 30 Oct. 2026

Word History

First Known Use

1965, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for wiggle room

• anteroom
• assume
• backroom
• ballroom
• barroom
• bathroom
• bedroom
• boardroom
• bridegroom
• classroom
• cloakroom
• consume