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Dance throw over a short distance
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shimmy
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Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Shimmy is a fitness television series broadcast in Canada on ONE: The Mind and Body Channel that emphasizes the health benefits of belly dance . The twenty six episode series was designed by Kim Pechet, a belly dance instructor and fitness professional. ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
verb EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ His athletic, shimmying run then set up the second-try for Dewi Morris. ▪ SHIme may be nonsense, or it may refer to shimmy or some other term, but it is not Yiddish. ▪ The alternative was to shimmy across a fallen log. ▪ Would ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"do a suggestive dance," 1918, perhaps via phrase shake the shimmy , which is possibly from shimmy (n.), a U.S. dialectal form of chemise (mistaken as a plural; compare shammy ) first recorded 1837. Or perhaps the verb is related to shimmer (v.) via a notion ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A dance movement involving thrusting the shoulders back and forth alternately. 2 An abnormal vibration, especially in the wheels of a vehicle. 3 A dance that was popular in the 1920s. 4 (context rare English) A sleeveless chemise. vb. 1 (context dance ...
Usage examples of shimmy.
She stripped, slipped the white picot dress from the hanger, and shimmied into it.
He shimmied his hips in pleasurable sync with the exaggerated double bobbing upon the plasterboard screen.
Standing before him, Rachel unsnapped her jeans and shimmied out of them.
With jerky movements she tugged off her blouse and trous, shimmied out of her breastband and pantlettes.
All he had to do now was to freewheel down the mountain at speeds of up to ninety kilometres an hour, not touching his brakes, ass in the air, head on the bars, leaning in and out of corners, slender tyres shimmying on the gravel at the bends, looking out to a drop of clear oxygen miles below.
Jacob proudly explain how the pulley worked as Tav shimmied up the tree and looped the ropes over a thick branch.
With a few liquid moves, she shimmied it over her head where it slid down and turned itself into a microdress.
The creature had shimmied up onto the bed and now had its bone and muck body poised over its victim.
He shimmied up the well, feeling every inch of the ascent, until he was just below the lip.
The Plymouth hesitated, shimmied for a moment, then took off in a cloud of exhaust down the street.
She cursed the wet suit as she shimmied out of it and tossed it through the window.
Holmes laughed nervously as a drop of moisture shimmied into the corner of his eye.
He shimmies up the trellis, does a spiderman routine over to the nearest window and in he goes.
The last time I went to see Aimee, she was living in a shimmy row house near Parliament Street, in Toronto.
In her travels Nicola had often sat in shared bedrooms and cabins and boudoirs and powder parlours, and watched debutantes, predatory divorcees, young hostesses, even reasonably successful good-time girls shimmying out of their cocktail dresses and ballgowns to reveal some bunched nightmare of bloomers, tights, long Johns, Y-fronts.