shimmynoun/ˈʃɪ.mi/

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  A dance move involving thrusting the shoulders back and forth alternately.

  • 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, […].
• 2

  A dance that was popular in the 1920s.

  • 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.
• 3

  An abnormal vibration, especially in the wheels of a vehicle.

• 4

  rareA sleeveless chemise.

shimmyverb/ˈʃɪ.mi/

• 1

  dancedancinghobbiesTo perform a shimmy (dance movement involving thrusting the shoulders back and forth alternately).

  • 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.
• 2

  To climb something (e.g. a pole) gradually (e.g. using alternately one's arms then one's legs).

  • He shimmied up the flagpole.
  • The static made her dress shimmy up her leg.
• 3

  To vibrate abnormally, as a broken wheel.

  • 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.
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  rareTo shake the body as if dancing the shimmy.

• 5

  video-gamesTo move across a narrow ledge, either by hanging from it or by strafing on it along the wall.

  • Jump up to the ledge on your right and shimmy around the corner.
  • Climb on top of the room and drop down to shimmy along its back ledge.