Usually means: Noisy mock serenade for newlyweds.
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  1. shivaree: Merriam-Webster
  2. shivaree: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. shivaree: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. shivaree: Collins English Dictionary
  5. shivaree: Vocabulary.com
  6. shivaree: Wordnik
  7. shivaree: Wiktionary
  8. shivaree: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. shivaree: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. shivaree: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. shivaree: Dictionary.com
  12. shivaree: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. Shivaree (TV series), Shivaree (band), Shivaree (custom), Shivaree (play), Shivaree: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. shivaree: Rhymezone
  15. shivaree: FreeDictionary.org
  16. shivaree: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  17. shivaree: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. shivaree: TheFreeDictionary.com
  19. Shivaree: World Wide Words

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  1. shivaree: Legal dictionary

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  1. shivaree, shivaree: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

(Note: See shivareeing as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (shivaree)

verb:  (transitive) To serenade (a newly married couple) with the noisy banging of pots and pans.
noun:  Alternative form of charivari [The noisy banging of pots and pans as a mock serenade to a newly married couple, or similar occasion.]

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