Definition of "squirm"

[…] around us there had sprung up a perfect bedlam of screams and hisses and a seething caldron of hideous reptiles, devoid of fear and filled only with hunger and with rage. They clambered, squirmed and wriggled to the deck, forcing us steadily backward, though we emptied our pistols into them.

1918 September–November, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “The Land That Time Forgot”, in The Blue Book Magazine, Chicago, Ill.: Story-press Corp.; republished as chapter IV, in Hugo Gernsback, editor, Amazing Stories, (please specify |part=I, II, or III), New York, N.Y.: Experimenter Publishing, 1927,

"Throw it away, dear, do," she said, as they got into the road; but Jacob squirmed away from her […]

1922 October 26, Virginia Woolf, chapter 1, in Jacob’s Room, Richmond, London: […] Leonard & Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press; republished London: The Hogarth Press, 1960,

The Dutchman then missed a retaken second spot-kick, before the Trotters hit back when Daniel Sturridge's shot squirmed under Heurelho Gomes.

2011 February 5, Michael Kevin Darling, “Tottenham 2 - 1 Bolton”, in BBC‎

MARIGOLD: Should I tell them I know?DORA: Nah, let ’em squirm. Let’s go get some pie.

2010, Jeph Jacques, Questionable Content 1686: Twist in the Wind‎