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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

See shimmy in American Heritage Dictionary 4

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