wiggle room

1. 1.

   flexibility of interpretation or of options

   “the request left some wiggle room for future restructuring”

   Broaderflexibility

Questions about wiggle room

What does wiggle room mean?

wiggle room means "flexibility of interpretation or of options".

Is wiggle room a common word?

wiggle room is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.