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noun

plural of waggle

as in flaps

a quick jerky movement from side to side or up and down a quick waggle of her head to indicate "no"

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waggles

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verb

present tense third-person singular of waggle

as in flicks

to move from side to side or up and down with quick jerky motions the rabbit waggled its ears and hopped away

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Pre-shot routines such as Patrick Cantlay’s foot-shuffling and Brian Harman’s waggles have driven golf fans up a wall. — Gabby Herzig, New York Times, 20 July 2026

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Noun

International audiences, which typically show up for Cruise flicks, aren’t buying tickets.

— Brent Lang, IndieWire, 4 Oct. 2026
And make no mistake, the cat eye was present and accounted for at the VMAs, but Swift gave it a mod-style update with a few flicks of white liner to accent her eyes even more.

— Kara Nesvig, Allure, 27 Sep. 2026

Definition of flicks

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The Twitch Like wags or swishes, occasional sharp twitches of the tail are no cause for alarm for you, the hunter.

— Tom Carpenter, Outdoor Life, 24 Sep. 2026
Moreover, if Griffin stepped into public life now, the cynical wags in finance would declare the reason obvious—his hedge fund’s returns have been sagging.

— Gary Sernovitz, New Yorker, 15 June 2026

Definition of wags

Verb

Persistent muscle twitches Everyone’s muscles twitch from time to time, usually at various locations.

— Angela Haupt, Time, 15 Jan. 2026
Some devices, for example, track eye movements or other small muscle twitches to let users select words from a screen.

— Emma R. Hasson, Scientific American, 14 Aug. 2025

Definition of twitches

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When the Spider swings past a silverish-gray newsstand filled with copies of the Daily Bugle, the frame becomes black-and-white, even in the color version.

— Harmon Siegel, Artforum, 1 Oct. 2026
There was no notice to staff that swings in blood sugar levels can cause the kind of emotional distress and behavioral outbursts that got Christian in trouble.

— Joseph Shapiro, NPR, 30 Sep. 2026

Definition of swings

Verb

Starting Tuesday, all this becomes Wall Street official when PSKY switches to SKYD on the ticker.

— James Hibberd, HollywoodReporter, 2 Oct. 2026
The broadcast then switches to what appears to be an MTV News update from Kurt Loder about search-and-rescue teams in Canada.

— Deirdre Durkan, PEOPLE, 24 Sep. 2026

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