shimmy
Meaning of shimmy
noun
- A dance movement involving thrusting the shoulders back and forth alternately.
- A dance that was popular in the 1920s.
- An abnormal vibration, especially in the wheels of a vehicle.
- A sleeveless chemise.
- To perform a shimmy (dance movement involving thrusting the shoulders back and forth alternately).
- To climb something (e.g. a pole) gradually (e.g. using alternately one's arms then one's legs).
He shimmied up the flagpole.
- To vibrate abnormally, as a broken wheel.
- To shake the body as if dancing the shimmy.
- To move across a narrow ledge, either by hanging from it or by strafing on it along the wall.
Information about shimmy
- The plural form of shimmy is: shimmies.
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Hyphenation of shimmy
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- It consists of 1 syllables and 6 chars.
- shimmy is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable
shimmy synonyms
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Words that rhyme with shimmy
immy, dimmy, whimmy, Jimmy, jimmy, Kimmy, crimmy, Timmy, swimmy, zimmy
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