Usually means: Wriggles or twists the body.
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  1. squirms: Merriam-Webster
  2. squirms: Collins English Dictionary
  3. squirms: Vocabulary.com
  4. Squirms, squirms: Wordnik
  5. squirms: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. squirms: Wiktionary
  7. squirms: Dictionary.com
  8. squirms: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. squirms: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. squirms: Idioms

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  1. Squirms: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (squirm)

verb:  (intransitive) To twist one's body with snakelike motions.
verb:  (intransitive) To twist in discomfort, especially from shame or embarrassment.
verb:  To evade a question, an interviewer etc.
noun:  A twisting, snakelike movement of the body.
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