0 the freedom or opportunity to do something, or to change your mind and do something differently if that is what is needed:
We need to leave ourselves some wiggle room when we're negotiating the deal.
1 the degree to which it is possible to change details like prices, times, etc. in an agreement, decision, etc.:
He offers red meat to the extremists while at the same giving himself the wiggle room to deny he said anything controversial in the first place.
We have little wiggle room, so the calculation must be quite precise.
As it happens, legal requirements for guilt tend to have little wiggle room; every condition in the logical chain must be met.
However, the effort is significantly hampered by the wiggle room provided by the theory.
When authors try to construct convincing arguments for or against any particular theoretical position, they are often impeded by the abstractness of the program, which allows too much wiggle room.
There is plenty of wiggle room there; we know that the commission already wants additional regulations to protect the integrity of the ballot.
For children's sizes, additional wiggle room is added to allow for growth.
There is some wiggle room because collections such as books may be counted as a single list item.
