Wiggler

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  • noun. One that wiggles, such as a worm or a restless child.
  • noun. The larva of a mosquito.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. The larva of a mosquito. Same as wriggler, 1, and wiggletail.
  • noun. One who or that which wriggles.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. The young, either larva or pupa, of the mosquito; -- called also wiggletail.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. Anything that wiggles.
  • noun. The larva of a mosquito.
  • noun. An earthworm.
  • noun. A magnet designed to make a beam of charged particles follow a curving path in a accelerator.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. larva of a mosquito
  • noun. terrestrial worm that burrows into and helps aerate soil; often surfaces when the ground is cool or wet; used as bait by anglers
  • noun. one who can't stay still (especially a child)
  • Word Usage
    "Immediately a two-page footnote explains that David Wallace had "already left the Internal Revenue Service in 1987," that his job was "a rote examiner, aka a 'wiggler' in the Service ­nomenclature," and that his "civil service rank was a GS-9.""
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