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shimmied

Variant of shimmy

noun

  1. Slang a chemise
    1. a jazz dance, popular in the 1920s, characterized by much shaking of the body
    2. a marked shaking, vibration, or wobble, as in the front wheels of an automobile

intransitive verb shimmied, shimmying

  1. to dance the shimmy
  2. to shake, vibrate, or wobble

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