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(dance) To perform a shimmy (dance movement involving thrusting the shoulders back and forth alternately).

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shimmy

/ˈʃɪ.mi/

verb

(dance) To perform a shimmy (dance movement involving thrusting the shoulders back and forth alternately).

She loves to shimmy on the dance floor.

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(dance) To perform a shimmy (dance movement involving thrusting the shoulders back and forth alternately).

She wondered would he think her awful, and try to get fresh if she shimmied. Fellows often did. But he was so cute. And a girl had to something about that, and if she didn't shimmy, she might do something worse.

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To climb something (e.g. a pole) gradually (e.g. using alternately one's arms then one's legs).

He shimmied up the flagpole.

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(intransitive) To vibrate abnormally, as a broken wheel.

They came in among earth-moving machines, a total absence of trees, the usual hieratic geometry, and eventually, shimmying for the sand roads, down in a helix to a sculptured body of water named Lake Inverarity.

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