Verb He can waggle his ears. He can make his ears waggle. Noun a quick waggle of her head to indicate “no”
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Many golfers at this point will waggle themselves into alignment—matching the programmed swing shape with the proper ball position. Paul Christianson, WSJ, 15 June 2022 Listeners are instructed to waggle their tongues, raise their arms to the ceiling or simply lie back and relax.oregonlive, 23 Dec. 2021 When the time comes to couple up, males will shake, shimmy and waggle their rears in an astounding display of eight-legged choreography. Katherine J. Wu, Smithsonian Magazine, 31 Mar. 2020 Bohacek reminded the kid what to do, and the kid waggled his little hands in the air again. Melissa Locker, Time, 9 Jan. 2020 Or Billy Mack waggling his junk in the TV host’s face. Kyle Smith, National Review, 10 Dec. 2019 In these noisy and dynamic few milliseconds the fat rear Michelins hazed and the Pista’s posterior waggled left, then right, violently, a 710-hp twerk. Dan Neil, WSJ, 21 Feb. 2019 The story is more dignified and tonally consistent than in the last film — Redmayne never has to do another butt-waggling Erumpet seduction dance — but much of it plays out with just as little weight as Fantastic Beasts’ silliest moments. Tasha Robinson, The Verge, 8 Nov. 2018 The horizon waggled, the waves suddenly got higher. Dan Neil, WSJ, 28 June 2018
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The other game to suffer most from wrist-waggle disconnect is NSS tennis, which has advanced subtly compared to its Wii Sports predecessor. Sam Machkovech, Ars Technica, 3 May 2022 Gyroscopic controls in video games used to be limited to features like the Wii waggle, but that situation has changed in recent years, thanks to support for a mix of motion and joystick controls in popular Switch and PlayStation games. Sam Machkovech, Ars Technica, 25 Feb. 2022 Like the democratic society of the bees, in which consensus arrives through waggle dancing. Lee Billings, Scientific American, 9 Mar. 2020 The play-action waggle play was designed to go to Smith, a defensive linemen who had his number called as the third-string fullback. Luke Ramirez, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Oct. 2019 Aside from dropping a bat waggle in between his setup and his swing, there have been no major or notable changes to his stance. Jon Tayler, SI.com, 8 May 2018 If there weren’t the V-8 for comparison, the V-6 would feel punchy enough, and in sport plus mode the rear-drive waggles under that combined 350 pound-feet of torque. Robert Duffer, chicagotribune.com, 27 Mar. 2018 The right-handed-hitting Acuna has no extraneous movement, no bat waggle, no hip action. Ray Glier, USA TODAY, 6 Sep. 2017 And considering the physical effort bees exert — from the waggle dance that communicates the location of a food source to the forceful beating of wings — Segura had a unique physicality to inform her choreography. Marcia Manna, sandiegouniontribune.com, 10 Aug. 2017 See More