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

But the show’s core constitution doesn’t leave much wiggle room for genre experiments, let alone tonal shifts into full-on song-and-dance mode. — Ben Travers, IndieWire, 25 Sep. 2026

Most hoppers require you to place your bills as neat and evenly as possible to avoid jams and other issues, but better hoppers give you some wiggle room. — Bestreviews, Chicago Tribune, 24 Sep. 2026

While Detroit currently has enough financial wiggle room to not worry about exceeding the luxury tax, there is the NBA repeater tax levied to teams that go over the luxury tax in at least three out of four seasons. — Hunter Patterson, New York Times, 11 Sep. 2026

Look for a shoe that fits extremely snug, almost like a second skin, and leaves way less wiggle room for your toes than a comparable road-running shoe. — Stacia Datskovska, Footwear News, 10 Sep. 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