Usually means: Involuntary trembling due to anxiety.
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We found 16 dictionaries that define the word the shakes:

General (11 matching dictionaries)
  1. the shakes: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. the shakes: Merriam-Webster
  3. the shakes: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. the shakes: Collins English Dictionary
  5. the shakes: Wordnik
  6. the shakes: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. The shakes: Dictionary.com
  8. The Shakes (Herbert album), The shakes: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. THE SHAKES: Dictionary of Americanisms (1848)
  10. the shakes: FreeDictionary.org
  11. The shakes: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. The shakes: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. The shakes: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. The shakes: Medical dictionary
  2. Rudy's List of Archaic Medical Terms (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. the shakes: Urban Dictionary


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