Usually means: Dance involving rapid shoulder shaking.
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  1. shimmy: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. shimmy: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. shimmy: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. shimmy: Collins English Dictionary
  5. shimmy: Vocabulary.com
  6. Shimmy, shimmy: Wordnik
  7. shimmy: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. shimmy: Wiktionary
  9. shimmy: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. shimmy: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. shimmy: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. shimmy: Dictionary.com
  13. shimmy (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Shimmy (Janet Leon song), Shimmy (TV series), Shimmy (disambiguation), Shimmy: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Shimmy: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. shimmy: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. shimmy: Rhymezone
  18. Shimmy: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. shimmy: Free Dictionary
  20. shimmy: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  21. shimmy: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. shimmy: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Dance (No longer online)

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  1. shimmy: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. shimmy, shimmy, shimmy: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Totally Unofficial Rap (No longer online)
  3. Shimmy: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Shimmy: Bicycle Glossary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)

(Note: See shimmied as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A dance move involving thrusting the shoulders back and forth alternately.
noun:  A dance that was popular in the 1920s.
noun:  An abnormal vibration, especially in the wheels of a vehicle.
noun:  (rare) A sleeveless chemise.
verb:  (dance) To perform a shimmy (dance movement involving thrusting the shoulders back and forth alternately).
verb:  To climb something (e.g. a pole) gradually (e.g. using alternately one's arms then one's legs).
verb:  (intransitive) To vibrate abnormally, as a broken wheel.
verb:  (intransitive, rare) To shake the body as if dancing the shimmy.
verb:  (intransitive, video games) To move across a narrow ledge, either by hanging from it or by strafing on it along the wall.

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