wobble
Collocations
5ADJ.
high, scary, so-called, south
VERB + WOBBLE
head, say, won
WOBBLE + NOUN
i'd, moon
PREP.
in, on, with
ADV.
anymore
Definitions
noun
An unsteady motion.
The fat man walked down the street with a wobble.
That should have been that, but Hart caught a dose of the Hennessey wobbles and spilled Adlene Guedioura's long-range shot.
A tremulous sound.
There was a wobble on her high notes.
A low-frequency oscillation sometimes used in dubstep.
“I Knew You Were Trouble,” one of the year’s great pop songs, begins like a sock-hop anthem, with jaunty guitars. A dubstep wobble arrives about halfway through like a wrecking ball, changing the course not just of the song but also of Ms. Swift’s career.
A variation in the third nucleotide of a codon that codes for a specific aminoacid.
verb
To move with an uneven or rocking motion, or unsteadily to and fro.
the Earth wobbles slowly on its axis
the jelly wobbled on the plate
To tremble or quaver.
The soprano's voice wobbled alarmingly.
To vacillate in one's opinions.
I'm wobbling between the Liberals and the Greens.
To cause to wobble.
The boy wobbled the girl's bike.
He said: “This front wheel wobbles.” I said: “It doesn’t if you don’t wobble it.” It didn’t wobble, as a matter of fact—nothing worth calling a wobble.
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6The fat man walked down the street with a wobble.
WiktionaryThat should have been that, but Hart caught a dose of the Hennessey wobbles and spilled Adlene Guedioura's long-range shot.
WiktionaryThere was a wobble on her high notes.
Wiktionarythe Earth wobbles slowly on its axis
Wiktionarythe jelly wobbled on the plate
WiktionaryThe apparition wobbled in front of Arthur's eyes, though the truth of the matter is probably that Arthur's eyes were wobbling in front of the apparition. His mouth wobbled as well.
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