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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.

verb

Tremble or shake. Synonym: wobble.

Dance a shimmy.

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"Shimmy" Quotes from Famous Books

... law-school—or even finishing high school. I don't want to go to college 'specially. Honest, there's lot of fellows that have graduated from colleges that don't begin to make as much money as fellows that went to work early. Old Shimmy Peters, that teaches Latin in the High, he's a what-is-it from Columbia and he sits up all night reading a lot of greasy books and he's always spieling about the 'value of languages,' and the poor soak doesn't make ...

— Babbitt • Sinclair Lewis

... when she sees our clothes," said Jane; "me very shimmy's wet." But, to their surprise, when they woke next morning clean clothes had been put out for them, and when they came downstairs Lull only said: "Has any of ye tuk ...

— The Weans at Rowallan • Kathleen Fitzpatrick

... take you out to-night and buy you the right kind of a dinner. When I walks my girl into a cafe, they sit up and take notice, all righty. Spangles she rigs herself up in when another girl, with the way my luck's been runnin', would be down to her shimmy-tail." ...

— Gaslight Sonatas • Fannie Hurst

... my son, The feet that twink, the hands that clug; Beware the Shimmy Shake and shun The thrustful ...

— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, January 14, 1920 • Various