shimmy

IPA: ʃˈɪmi

(dance) 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).
(intransitive) To vibrate abnormally, as a broken wheel.
(intransitive, rare) To shake the body as if dancing the shimmy.
(intransitive, video games) To move across a narrow ledge, either by hanging from it or by strafing on it along the wall.

Examples of "shimmy" in Sentences

The shoulder shimmy is also used.
At the same time shimmy your body.
He can jump and shimmy along edges.
Shimmy is also a mechanical vibration.
Shimmy a shimmering vibration of the hips.
I'm just gonna shimmy that in if ya don't mind.
Shimmy makes an unsuccessful attempt to seduce Nell.
Shoulder shimmy is also an important element of belly dance.
All this is accompanied by the shimmy body ripples popular at these times.
Shimmy Shimmy Cocopop is an actual song that was around way before that movie.
* shimmy shimmy* anbudan_BALA I think I saw the news of Michael Jackson's demise late!
Some emo yet functional play from Chile, a direct contrast to the cheap & cheerful two-chord shimmy from the Honduran side.
At the cash register, Roy cracked a package of pennies like an egg and let the coins shimmy into the bowl of the money drawer.
This technology senses for irregularity in wheel balance and the related steering wheel vibration - or "shimmy" - it can cause.
November 4, 2008 at 1:08 pm just gotta give a shimmy and it acts like chaff on radar *shimmy* see, I can disappear in the cloud.
How the proton gets its spin out of the quark-gluon shimmy is still a big mystery, so theorists have been experimenting with difference ways to combine PDFs and form factors, to include interference terms, and understand all components of nulceon spin.