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Shimmy

Shimmy | Shimmying

Shimmy meaning

A dance move 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.

Example sentences (19)

Cowart was a beautiful blonde from East Texas who was paid to wear a short skirt and shimmy at venues such as Swingers A-Go-Go, Club Saracen, and Le Lollipop.

Legend has it these dancers starred in a revue at the Egyptian Theater on the fair’s Midway and performed a belly dance that was the forerunner to the burlesque shimmy.

The embrace quickly turned into a shimmy, with the pair jumping up and down and dancing together on stage.

The event is co-run by Shimmy Sistas Bellydance and Orange CultureHub.

They believe that there are evermore things urgently in need of their supervision — things to ban or mandate or regulate to help society shimmy up the pole of progress.

Too many gardeners attempt to shimmy and wiggle hand-held pruning shears through branches too thick to be cut effectively with this tool.

And the Tummery star showed his shimmering soccer skills with a shimmy and a ball at his feet with a neat finish off the ground into the Harps net.

But straddling the low-ish seat, that narrow waist let my shimmy around the flickable, low-slung weight.

Hips swivel, shoulders shimmy, bosoms bounce and legs kick.

Renegade did the Eddie Guerrero shimmy going into a PIP break.

Another has a hole in the middle that researchers turned into a pouch so it could shimmy around with miniature payloads.

She improvises a skincare routine, tries a self-administered bikini wax that ends in blood, and caps it all off with an attempt to shimmy into a girdle.

For close to a year, I have been doing the jeans shimmy with big, blousy shirts to try and camouflage the tell-tale signs of a failed metabolism.

These include Adam Zampa’s pigeon-step shuffle, Lockie Ferguson’s starting shimmy, and Jasprit Bumrah, hurrying his invisible tray of drinks to the crease while trying not to spill them.

I shimmy, shake, and feign and hop to avoid being steamrolled by yet another roving Bird or Lime scooter here on Westside sidewalks.

It was almost like a spectacle to see that “fly white guy” shimmy in front of a crowd of people impressed that he could emulate their Black magic right in front of them.

Shimmy Beach Club presents the 7th edition of Goldfish Submerged, Cape Town’s biggest summer residency.

With a shuffle and a shimmy, he makes room for shot and sends a curling left-footed effort past Ederson via a little deflection off Zinchenko.

Bishop 1995, Appendix 1 The Dunlop-Marstrand anti-shimmy tailwheel was also retractable.