squiggly
IPA: skwˈɪgʌɫi
noun
- (computing, informal) A wavy underline used to indicate an error in text or source code.
adjective
- (informal) Not straight; wavy and irregular.
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Examples of "squiggly" in Sentences
- It looks like a squiggly signature.
- It was all curvy and squiggly on the blade.
- They just added a squiggly line to the map.
- The following one should be a squiggly thing.
- One of those things braced by a pair of squiggly brackets.
- Or sometimes a squiggly thunderbolt symbol, if you have one.
- The wiggly squiggly tripas are in a separate container to the side.
- Nate Silver wants to scrap the "squiggly" audience reaction dials during Presidential debates.
- And you can see whenever that line of red gets kind of squiggly, you know there's a big time straight-line winds.
- See the two yellow kind of squiggly lines there, those represent roads, the Canyon Road and the Malibu Canyon Road in between an area that's been evacuated.
- CFLs fit in standard lamps and come in many shapes, ranging from ones that look like traditional bulbs to "squiggly" models that take traditional fluorescent tubes and bend them into spiral shapes.
- Betty’s mother, I guessed it to have been, had covered the contents with white cotton cloth, then had sewn it secure though rather messily compared to the fine stitchery I was used to seeing in my own home, and had written my father’s name and address on it real big, in the same kind of squiggly penmanship he used.
- Mr. Kunkel is himself the author of a widely heralded first novel Indecision (2005), the cover of which features the same kind of squiggly, Saul Bass-esque design as Everything Is Illuminated (2002), the widely heralded first novel by Jonathan Safran Foer (Princeton ’99) — a cynical act of marketing that suggests both men offer precisely the same kind of transporting, highbrow laddie-lit experience to the Barnes & Noble buyer.
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