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shimmy

English

  1. 🔊 lively dancing (usually to ragtime music) with much shaking of the shoulders and hips
  2. 🔊 an abnormal wobble in a motor vehicle (especially in the front wheels)
    “he could feel the shimmy in the steering wheel”
  3. 🔊 a woman's sleeveless undergarment
  4. 🔊 dance a shimmy
  5. 🔊 tremble or shake
    “His voice wobbled with restrained emotion”

Spanish

  1. 🔊 bailoteo shimmy, jig

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