wobbly
adjective
shaky; unsteady.
Wobblies
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pluralof Wobbly.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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A statewide dragnet for organizers from the Industrial Workers of the World, or Wobblies, ensued, followed by hundreds of arrests.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 16, 2024
Neighborhood groups, many of them members of the Wobblies or the Communist Party, in the 1930s physically prevented sheriff's departments from evicting families.
From Salon ● May 4, 2021
The Wobblies, as Rye notes, are “the one big union that took anyone as a member: Finnish logger, Negro seamstress, Indian ranch hand, even floater like them.”
From Slate ● Oct. 30, 2020
Neither the Mormons nor the Wobblies fit comfortably in narratives of Western development dominated by cowboys, railroad men, ranchers and other boomer archetypes.
From New York Times ● Jun. 1, 2020
"I. W. W. Songs," a Red booklet published at the Chicago headquarters, has already met with such popularity among the "Wobblies" that fourteen editions have been published.
From The Red Conspiracy by Joseph J. Mereto
