wriggle

To turn or twist the body or a body part with writhing motions.

To move or proceed with writhing motions.

To move with a wriggling motion.

To make (one’s way, for example) by or as if by wriggling.

A wriggling movement.

To extricate oneself from (an undesirable situation or responsibility, for example) by sly or subtle means.

The motion of one who or that which wriggles; a quick twisting motion or contortion like that of a worm or an eel.

Something showing the effect of wriggling or sinuous action; a sinuosity or contortion; a wrinkle.

To move sinuously; twist to and fro; writhe; squirm; wiggle.

To move along sinuously, or by twisting and turning the body, as a snake, an eel, or a worm; hence, figuratively, to proceed by shifts and turns; make way by sinuous or crooked means: as, to wriggle out of a difficulty.