Definition of "shimmy" [shim•my]

• Abnormal vibration or wobbling, as of the wheels of an automobile. (noun)
• A dance popular in the 1920s, characterized by rapid shaking of the body. (noun)
• A chemise. (noun)
• To vibrate or wobble abnormally. (verb-intransitive)
• To shake the body in or as if in dancing the shimmy. (verb-intransitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "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."
• "* 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."