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单词 shimmy
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shimmy

(ʃɪmi)
Word forms: 3rd person singular presenttense shimmies, present participle shimmying, past tense, past participle shimmied
verb
If you shimmy, you dance or move in a way that involves shaking your hips and shoulders from side to side.
Dancers shimmied in the streets of New Orleans. [VERB]
The singer shimmied across the stage in an incredibly sexy dress. [VERB preposition/adverb]

shimmy in British English

or shimmey (ˈʃɪmɪ)
nounWord forms: plural -mies
1. 
an American ragtime dance with much shaking of the hips and shoulders
2. 
abnormal wobbling motion in a motor vehicle, esp in the front wheels or steering
3.  an informal word for chemise
verbWord forms: -mies, -mying or -mied (intransitive)
4. 
to dance the shimmy
5. 
to vibrate or wobble
Word origin
C19: changed from chemise, mistakenly assumed to be plural

shimmy in American English

(ˈʃɪmi)
noun
1.  Slang, Obsolete
a chemise
2.  US
a. 
a jazz dance, popular in the 1920s, characterized by much shaking of the body
b. 
a marked shaking, vibration, or wobble, as in the front wheels of an automobile
verb intransitiveWord forms: ˈshimmied or ˈshimmying US
3. 
to dance the shimmy
4. 
to shake, vibrate, or wobble
Word origin
(sense 1) < chemise misunderstood as pl.; (sense 2) < phr. to shake a shimmy

Examples of 'shimmy' in a sentence
shimmy

As she passed him she brought her hands to her hips briefly and gave a quick shimmy.
Barbara Erskine HIDING FROM THE LIGHT (1999)
The taxi did a little shimmy sideways and the driver spun the wheel.
Erskine, Barbara MIDNIGHT IS A LONELY PLACE (1999)
The real me under this wig... I'm trying to encourage the shimmy shake this evening, but the Mater's not being very helpful.
Haines, Pamela THE GOLDEN LION (1999)
If I were you, I'd shimmy back up that tree before they figure it out.
J. A. Jance BREACH OF DUTY (1999)
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