shimmy
/ˈʃɪ.mi/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.65 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A dance move involving thrusting the shoulders back and forth alternately.
noun
An abnormal vibration, especially in the wheels of a vehicle.
noun
verb
To perform a shimmy (dance movement involving thrusting the shoulders back and forth alternately).
Example Sentences
- "What is certain, however, is that the president-elect’s signature shimmy is currently en vogue with all manner of professional athletes, imitated by at least five National Football League players on Sunday, […]."
- "The tango, the Texas Tommy, Walking the Dog, the one step, the fox trot, the shimmy, and all their out-growths, had their origin in the palaces of lust on the Barbary Coast of San Francisco."
- "She wondered would he think her awful, and try to get fresh if she shimmied. Fellows often did. But he was so cute. And a girl had to something about that, and if she didn't shimmy, she might do something worse."
- "He shimmied up the flagpole."
- "The static made her dress shimmy up her leg."
- "They came in among earth-moving machines, a total absence of trees, the usual hieratic geometry, and eventually, shimmying for the sand roads, down in a helix to a sculptured body of water named Lake Inverarity."