Usually means: Signal or communicate by swinging.
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  1. wigwag: Merriam-Webster
  2. wigwag: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. wigwag: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. wigwag: Collins English Dictionary
  5. wigwag: Vocabulary.com
  6. wigwag: Wordnik
  7. wigwag: Wiktionary
  8. wigwag: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. wigwag: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. wigwag: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. wigwag: Dictionary.com
  12. Wigwag (disambiguation), Wigwag (flag signals), Wigwag (magazine), Wigwag (railroad), Wigwag: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Wigwag: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. wigwag: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. wigwag: Rhymezone
  16. Wigwag: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. wigwag: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  18. wigwag: FreeDictionary.org
  19. wigwag: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. wigwag: TheFreeDictionary.com

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Definitions from Wiktionary (wigwag)

noun:  Any of a number of mechanical or electrical devices which cause a component to oscillate between two states.
noun:  A device that causes one or more lights to flash in a preset pattern.
noun:  (film, television) A red light near the door of a sound stage that flashes to indicate that cameras are rolling inside the stage and that all people and vehicles outside should remain quiet; a red-eye.
noun:  (road transport) A device used to cause lamps installed on a motor vehicle, especially an emergency vehicle such as an ambulance or police car, to flash as a warning.
noun:  (road transport) A device with multiple (often two), alternately flashing lights which is installed at a railway level crossing (or grade crossing), a movable bridge, etc., to warn vehicular traffic to stop.
noun:  (watchmaking) An instrument that creates a wigwagging motion for polishing.
noun:  (road transport) A warning device inside the cabin of a truck that causes a mechanical arm to drop into view when the pressure in the airbrake system of the truck becomes too low for the brakes to be reliably deployed.
noun:  (US, rail transport) A grade crossing signal with a swinging motion used to indicate an approaching train.
noun:  (US, military, historical) A signal sent by waving a flag to and fro.
verb:  To move gently in one direction and then another; to wig or wiggle, to wag or waggle.
verb:  An act of wigwagging.
verb:  To oscillate between two states.
verb:  (US, military, historical) To send a signal by waving a flag to and fro.
adverb:  With a wigwagging or to-and-fro motion.

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