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Shimmy

noun

An abnormal wobble in a motor vehicle (especially in the front wheels).

A woman's sleeveless undergarment. Synonyms: chemise, shift, slip, teddy.

Lively dancing (usually to ragtime music) with much shaking of the shoulders and hips.

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"Shimmy" Quotes from Famous Books

... "Gold money is all sufferin's or 'arf-sufferin's. I got it tied in a corner o' what Miss Montagu taught me to call my shimmy—shifts bein' vulgar, ...

— True Tilda • Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch

... learned a lot since leaving school, not only about prohibition, but also about speed laws, men's fashions, facial massage, the fox trot and the shimmy, caviar, silk pajamas, bromo-seltzer, the language of flowers, and many of the pleasures and displeasures of the higher intellectual life, such as love ...

— Flowing Gold • Rex Beach

... such pleasures as The shimmy and "the Bacchus Jazz"; Your presence with the maidens jars— You are the ...

— Something Else Again • Franklin P. Adams

... Cabello coffees come across the thirty-mile gulf to the westward from the port of Tucacas, in a little steamer called the Barquisimento, which is famous all along the coast as the "cocktail shaker." C.H. Stewart[324] solemnly asserts that "Barky" can do the "shimmy" when lying at anchor in ...

— All About Coffee • William H. Ukers

Words linked to "Shimmy" : chemise, social dancing, undergarment, dancing, trip the light fantastic toe, strap, wobble, trip the light fantastic, shoulder strap, unmentionable, teddy, saltation, dance, slip, vibrate, shift, terpsichore