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verb
- To shake (vigorously); to tremble.
- To cause (someone) to hurry; to hasten, to hurry.
- To move quickly, to rush, to whiz; also, to make a rushing sound; to whizz.
- Of the wind: to blow loudly and vigorously; to bluster; also, of an animal, etc.: to make a loud noise; to bellow, to roar.
- To throw (something) forcefully; to hurl; also, to beat, to thrash.
adv
- To the place in or to which.
- (generally) In or to any place to which; to whatever place; wherever.
- To which place; also (after a noun denoting a place) to which.
- (figurative, also humorous) To what (future) cause, condition or state, reason, etc.; where, where next; also (obsolete) to what extent; how far.
- To what place; where.
noun
- (formal, archaic except literary or poetic) A place to which someone or something goes; also, a condition to which someone or something moves.
- A state of rushed action; a haste, a hurry; also, a state of anger or excitement.
- The sound of something moving quickly; a rush, a whiz.
- A gust of wind; a bluster.
- A forceful blow or hit.
- An act of shaking (vigorously); a shiver, a tremble; also, a slight bout of discomfort or illness.
verb
noun
adj
- Easily shaken; tottering; unsound.
- Shaking or trembling.
- (of wood) Full of shakes or cracks; cracked.
- Nervous, anxious.
- Wavering; undecided.
- vibrating slightly and irregularly; as e.g. with fear or cold or like the leaves of an aspen in a breeze
- not secure; beset with difficulties
- inclined to shake as from weakness or defect
verb
- To rattle or shake (something).
- To inhibit or restrain the ability, action, activity, or progress of (someone or something); to render (someone or something) incapable or ineffectual.
- To connect or couple (something) to another thing using a shackle (noun etymology 1 sense 1.1.1, etymology 1 sense 1.1.3, etc.).
- (intransitive) Often followed by about: to be idle or lazy; to avoid work.
- To place (a person or animal) in shackles (noun etymology 1 sense 1); to immobilize or restrain using shackles.
- (intransitive, reflexive) Of two things: to connect or couple together.
- To provide (something) with a shackle.
- To put (something) into disorder; specifically (agriculture), to cause (standing stalks of corn) to fall over.
- restrain with fetters
- bind the arms of
noun
- A hook, ring, or other device for connecting, holding, lifting, etc.; specifically (nautical), a small incomplete ring secured with a bolt across the ends, used to connect lengths of cable or chain together, or to keep a porthole closed.
- (agriculture) Synonym of hobble or hopple (“a short strap tied between the legs of a horse, allowing it to wander a short distance but not to run off”).
- (nautical) A length of cable or chain equal to 12½ fathoms (75 feet or about 22.9 metres), or later to 15 fathoms (90 feet or about 27.4 metres).
- (usually in the plural) A restraint fitted over a human or animal appendage, such as an ankle, finger, or wrist, normally used in a pair joined by a chain.
- Part of a padlock that consists of a loop of metal (round or square in cross section) that encompasses what is being secured by the lock.
- (dice games) A dice game; also, an event at which tickets are sold for chances to be drawn to win prizes; a raffle.
- A person who is idle or lazy; an idler.
- (rail transport) A link for connecting railroad cars; a draglink, drawbar, or drawlink.
- A U-shaped piece of metal secured with a bolt or pin across the ends, or a hinged metal loop secured with a quick-release locking pin mechanism, used for attaching things together while allowing for some degree of movement; a clevis.
- (figurative, usually in the plural) A restraint on one's action, activity, or progress.
- a U-shaped bar; the open end can be passed through chain links and closed with a bar
- a restraint that confines or restricts freedom (especially something used to tie down or restrain a prisoner)
adv
adj
- having a strong physiological or chemical effect
- strong, vigorous
- rigidly formal
- not moving or operating freely
- incapable of or resistant to bending
- marked by firm determination or resolution; not shakable
- very drunk
- (nautical) Keeping upright.
- (informal) Expensive, pricey.
- (of a person) Formal in behavior; unrelaxed.
- (professional wrestling, of a strike) Delivered more forcefully than needed, whether intentionally or accidentally, thus causing legitimate pain to the opponent.
- (of muscles or parts of the body) Painful or more rigid than usual as a result of excessive or unaccustomed exercise.
- (of an object) Rigid; hard to bend; inflexible.
- Potent.
- (informal) Dead, deceased.
- (golf) Of a shot, landing so close to the flagstick that it should be very easy to sink the ball with the next shot.
- (slang, of the penis) Erect.
- (mathematics) Of an equation, for which certain numerical solving methods are numerically unstable, unless the step size is taken to be extremely small.
- (figurative, of policies and rules and their application and enforcement) Inflexible; rigid.
- Having a dense consistency; thick; (by extension) Difficult to stir.
- (colloquial) Harsh, severe.
- (cooking, of whipping cream or egg whites) Beaten until so aerated that they stand up straight on their own.
noun
- the dead body of a human being
- an ordinary man
- (prison slang) A note or letter surreptitiously sent by an inmate.
- (slang) A cadaver; a dead person.
- (slang) A person who is deceived, as a mark or pigeon in a swindle.
- (slang, chiefly Canada, US) An average person, usually male, of no particular distinction, skill, or education.
- (slang) A flop; a commercial failure.
- (US, slang, by extension) A customer who does not leave a tip.
- (US, slang) A person who leaves (especially a restaurant) without paying the bill.
- (finance, slang) Negotiable instruments, possibly forged.
- (blackjack) Any hard hand where it is possible to exceed 21 by drawing an additional card.
verb
noun
- The act of shaking or being shaken; tremulous or back-and-forth motion.
- (building material) A thin shingle.
- A basic wooden shingle made from split logs, traditionally used for roofing etc.
- A beverage made by adding ice cream to a (usually carbonated) drink; a float.
- A shook of staves and headings.
- (usually preceded by definite article) A dance popular in the 1960s in which the head, limbs, and body are shaken.
- (UK, dialect) The redshank, so called from the nodding of its head while on the ground.
- (US, slang, uncountable) An adulterant added to cocaine powder.
- (music) In singing, notes (usually high ones) sung vibrato.
- (music) A rapid alternation of a principal tone with another represented on the next degree of the staff above or below it; a trill.
- (nautical) One of the staves of a hogshead or barrel taken apart.
- A shock or disturbance.
- (usually in the plural) A twitch, a spasm, a tremor.
- Shake cannabis, small, leafy fragments of cannabis that gather at the bottom of a bag of marijuana.
- A milkshake.
- (historical, nuclear physics) An informal unit of time equal to 10 nanoseconds.
- A crack or split between the growth rings in wood.
- (informal) Instant, second. (Especially in two shakes.)
- A fissure in rock or earth.
- frothy drink of milk and flavoring and sometimes fruit or ice cream
- a reflex motion caused by cold or fear or excitement
- building material used as siding or roofing
- causing to move repeatedly from side to side
- a note that alternates rapidly with another note a semitone above it
- grasping and shaking a person's hand (as to acknowledge an introduction or to agree on a contract)
verb
- shake (a body part) to communicate a greeting, feeling, or cognitive state
- (intransitive, figurative) To be agitated; to lose firmness.
- (transitive, figurative) To threaten to overthrow.
- (transitive, idiomatic) To lose, evade, or get rid of (something).
- (intransitive) To move from side to side.
- (transitive) To disturb emotionally; to shock.
- (transitive) To move or remove by agitating; to throw off by a jolting or vibrating motion.
- (transitive) To give a tremulous tone to; to trill.
- (transitive) To move (one's head) from side to side, especially to indicate refusal, reluctance, or disapproval.
- (intransitive) To dance.
- (intransitive, usually as "shake on") To shake hands.
- (transitive, ergative) To cause (something) to move rapidly in opposite directions alternatingly.
- move with or as if with a tremor
- shake or vibrate rapidly and intensively
- move or cause to move back and forth
- stir the feelings, emotions, or peace of
- undermine or cause to waver
- bring to a specified condition by or as if by shaking
- move back and forth or sideways
- get rid of
noun
- a slight push or shake
- a sharp change in direction
- a slow pace of running
- In card tricks, one or more cards that are secretly made to protrude slightly from the deck as an aid to the performer.
- A sudden push or nudge.
- An energetic trot, slower than a run, often used as a form of exercise.
- (theater) A flat placed perpendicularly to break up a flat surface.
verb
- give a slight push to
- run at a moderately swift pace
- even up the edges of a stack of paper, in printing
- run for exercise
- continue talking or writing in a desultory manner
- stimulate to remember
- (transitive) To shake, stir or rouse.
- (transitive) To cause to move at an energetic trot.
- (exercise, intransitive) To move at a pace between walking and running, to run at a leisurely pace.
- (transitive) To straighten stacks of paper by lightly tapping against a flat surface.
- (intransitive) To walk or ride forward with a jolting pace; to move at a heavy pace, trudge; to move on or along.
- (transitive) To push slightly; to move or shake with a push or jerk, as to gain the attention of; to jolt.
noun
- a slight push or shake
- A gentle push.
- Alternative form of nudzh.
- (behavioral economics) The use of positive reinforcement and indirect suggestions as ways to influence.
- The rotation by one step of a fruit machine reel of the player's choice.
- (Internet) A feature of instant messaging software used to get the attention of another user, as by shaking the conversation window or playing a sound.
verb
verb
- To jerk; to jolt; to be shaken.
- (intransitive) To spray out of a container.
- (transitive) To spray with liquid from a container.
- To shoot forward or out; to project; to jut out.
- To strut; to walk with a lofty or haughty gait; to be insolent; to obtrude.
- (intransitive) To move (running, walking etc.) rapidly around
- (intransitive) To travel on a jet aircraft or otherwise by jet propulsion
- To adjust the fuel to air ratio of a carburetor; to install or adjust a carburetor jet
- (slang, intransitive) To leave; depart.
- fly a jet plane
- issue in a jet; come out in a jet; stream or spring forth
adj
noun
- The colour of jet coal, deep grey.
- (mathematics) an operation that takes a differentiable function f and produces a polynomial, the Taylor polynomial (truncated Taylor series) of f, at each point of its domain.
- A turbine.
- (mineralogy) A hard, black form of coal, sometimes used in jewellery.
- A spout or nozzle for creating a jet of fluid.
- (physics) A narrow cone of hadrons and other particles produced by the hadronization of a quark or gluon.
- A part of a carburetor that controls the amount of fuel mixed with the air.
- (aviation) A type of airplane using jet engines rather than propellers.
- A collimated stream, spurt or flow of liquid or gas from a pressurized container, an engine, etc.
- A rocket engine.
- a hard black form of lignite that takes a brilliant polish and is used in jewelry or ornamentation
- atmospheric discharges (lasting 10 msec) bursting from the tops of giant storm clouds in blue cones that widen as they flash upward
- the occurrence of a sudden discharge (as of liquid)
- an airplane powered by one or more jet engines
- street names for ketamine
- an artificially produced flow of water
noun
verb
verb
noun
verb
- tremble or shake
- dance a shimmy
- (intransitive, video games) To move across a narrow ledge, either by hanging from it or by strafing on it along the wall.
- (intransitive, rare) To shake the body as if dancing the shimmy.
- (dance) To perform a shimmy (dance movement involving thrusting the shoulders back and forth alternately).
- To climb something (e.g. a pole) gradually (e.g. using alternately one's arms then one's legs).
- (intransitive) To vibrate abnormally, as a broken wheel.
noun
- a woman's sleeveless undergarment
- an abnormal wobble in a motor vehicle (especially in the front wheels)
- lively dancing (usually to ragtime music) with much shaking of the shoulders and hips
- (rare) A sleeveless chemise.
- An abnormal vibration, especially in the wheels of a vehicle.
- A dance that was popular in the 1920s.
- A dance move involving thrusting the shoulders back and forth alternately.
verb
noun
noun
verb
- move to and fro
- fasten or join with a joggle
- (transitive) To shake slightly; to push suddenly but slightly, so as to cause to shake or totter; to jostle; to jog.
- (architecture, transitive) To join by means of joggles, so as to prevent sliding apart; sometimes, loosely, to dowel.
- (intransitive) To shake or totter; to slip out of place.
- To jog or run while juggling.
verb
- (intransitive) To shake; to move with a series of jerks.
- (transitive) To shock emotionally.
- (transitive) To knock sharply
- (transitive) To shock (someone) into taking action or being alert
- (transitive) To push or shake abruptly and roughly.
- move or cause to move with a sudden jerky motion
- disturb (someone's) composure
noun
adj
noun
verb
verb
- (intransitive) To shake, wiggle around.
- To chase after; especially, to chase after and return (a ball) hit usually out of play.
- (transitive) To make hairy or shaggy; to roughen.
- (UK, Ireland, Australia, intransitive, slang, vulgar) To have sex.
- (India, transitive, slang, vulgar) To masturbate.
- (dance, uncommon) To perform the dance called the shag.
- (UK, Ireland, Australia, transitive, slang, vulgar) To have sex with.
- dance the shag
adj
noun
- Coarse shredded tobacco.
- (West Country) Friend; mate; buddy.
- (slang, vulgar) An act of sex.
- Any of several species of sea birds in the family Phalacrocoracidae (cormorant family), especially a common shag or European shag (Phalacrocorax aristotelis), found on European and African coasts.
- (slang, vulgar) A casual sexual partner.
- (often attributive) A deliberately messy, shaggy hairstyle.
- (dance, sometimes capitalized) A swing dance.
- Matted material; rough massed hair, fibres etc.
- A type of rough carpet pile.
- (Northwestern Ontario) A fundraising dance in honour of a couple engaged to be married.
- a fabric with long coarse nap
- a lively dance step consisting of hopping on each foot in turn
- slang for sexual intercourse
- a strong coarse tobacco that has been shredded
- a matted tangle of hair or fiber
noun
- A person or thing that shakes, or by means of which something is shaken.
- A variety of pigeon.
- A kind of straight-sided, stackable glass for beer, soda, etc.
- A musical percussion instrument filled with granular solids which produce a rhythmic sound when shaken.
- One who holds railroad spikes while they are hammered.
- a person who wields power and influence
- a container in which something can be shaken
verb
- (transitive) To agitate by shaking.
- (transitive) To restore to its original shape by shaking.
- (transitive, informal, idiomatic) To upset or distress (a person).
- (transitive, informal) To reorganize, to make reforms in.
- organize anew
- shake; especially (a patient to detect fluids or air in the body)
- make fuller by shaking
- change the arrangement or position of
- stir the feelings, emotions, or peace of
- shock physically
verb
- shake uncontrollably
- cause to contract
- move or stir about violently
- contract involuntarily, as in a spasm
- be overcome with laughter
- make someone convulse with laughter
- (intransitive) To suffer violent involuntary contractions of the muscles, causing one's body to contort.
- (transitive) To cause disruption to.
- (transitive) To cause (someone) to suffer such contractions, especially as a result of making them laugh heartily.
- (intransitive, figurative) To be beset by political or social upheaval.
verb
noun
- the act of vibrating
- case for holding arrows
- an almost pleasurable sensation of fright
- a shaky motion
- (weaponry) A container for arrows, crossbow bolts or darts, such as those fired from a bow, crossbow or blowgun.
- (figuratively) A ready storage location for figurative tools or weapons.
- (mathematics) A multidigraph, especially in the context of representation theory.
verb
noun
noun
- The act of shaking or being shaken; tremulous or back-and-forth motion.
- (building material) A thin shingle.
- A basic wooden shingle made from split logs, traditionally used for roofing etc.
- A beverage made by adding ice cream to a (usually carbonated) drink; a float.
- A shook of staves and headings.
- (usually preceded by definite article) A dance popular in the 1960s in which the head, limbs, and body are shaken.
- (UK, dialect) The redshank, so called from the nodding of its head while on the ground.
- (US, slang, uncountable) An adulterant added to cocaine powder.
- (music) In singing, notes (usually high ones) sung vibrato.
- (music) A rapid alternation of a principal tone with another represented on the next degree of the staff above or below it; a trill.
- (nautical) One of the staves of a hogshead or barrel taken apart.
- A shock or disturbance.
- (usually in the plural) A twitch, a spasm, a tremor.
- Shake cannabis, small, leafy fragments of cannabis that gather at the bottom of a bag of marijuana.
- A milkshake.
- (historical, nuclear physics) An informal unit of time equal to 10 nanoseconds.
- A crack or split between the growth rings in wood.
- (informal) Instant, second. (Especially in two shakes.)
- A fissure in rock or earth.
- frothy drink of milk and flavoring and sometimes fruit or ice cream
- a reflex motion caused by cold or fear or excitement
- building material used as siding or roofing
- causing to move repeatedly from side to side
- a note that alternates rapidly with another note a semitone above it
- grasping and shaking a person's hand (as to acknowledge an introduction or to agree on a contract)
verb
- shake (a body part) to communicate a greeting, feeling, or cognitive state
- (intransitive, figurative) To be agitated; to lose firmness.
- (transitive, figurative) To threaten to overthrow.
- (transitive, idiomatic) To lose, evade, or get rid of (something).
- (intransitive) To move from side to side.
- (transitive) To disturb emotionally; to shock.
- (transitive) To move or remove by agitating; to throw off by a jolting or vibrating motion.
- (transitive) To give a tremulous tone to; to trill.
- (transitive) To move (one's head) from side to side, especially to indicate refusal, reluctance, or disapproval.
- (intransitive) To dance.
- (intransitive, usually as "shake on") To shake hands.
- (transitive, ergative) To cause (something) to move rapidly in opposite directions alternatingly.
- move with or as if with a tremor
- shake or vibrate rapidly and intensively
- move or cause to move back and forth
- stir the feelings, emotions, or peace of
- undermine or cause to waver
- bring to a specified condition by or as if by shaking
- move back and forth or sideways
- get rid of
noun
- a slight push or shake
- a sharp change in direction
- a slow pace of running
- In card tricks, one or more cards that are secretly made to protrude slightly from the deck as an aid to the performer.
- A sudden push or nudge.
- An energetic trot, slower than a run, often used as a form of exercise.
- (theater) A flat placed perpendicularly to break up a flat surface.
verb
- give a slight push to
- run at a moderately swift pace
- even up the edges of a stack of paper, in printing
- run for exercise
- continue talking or writing in a desultory manner
- stimulate to remember
- (transitive) To shake, stir or rouse.
- (transitive) To cause to move at an energetic trot.
- (exercise, intransitive) To move at a pace between walking and running, to run at a leisurely pace.
- (transitive) To straighten stacks of paper by lightly tapping against a flat surface.
- (intransitive) To walk or ride forward with a jolting pace; to move at a heavy pace, trudge; to move on or along.
- (transitive) To push slightly; to move or shake with a push or jerk, as to gain the attention of; to jolt.
noun
- a slight push or shake
- A gentle push.
- Alternative form of nudzh.
- (behavioral economics) The use of positive reinforcement and indirect suggestions as ways to influence.
- The rotation by one step of a fruit machine reel of the player's choice.
- (Internet) A feature of instant messaging software used to get the attention of another user, as by shaking the conversation window or playing a sound.
verb
noun
verb
verb
noun
noun
verb
- move to and fro
- fasten or join with a joggle
- (transitive) To shake slightly; to push suddenly but slightly, so as to cause to shake or totter; to jostle; to jog.
- (architecture, transitive) To join by means of joggles, so as to prevent sliding apart; sometimes, loosely, to dowel.
- (intransitive) To shake or totter; to slip out of place.
- To jog or run while juggling.
noun
- A person or thing that shakes, or by means of which something is shaken.
- A variety of pigeon.
- A kind of straight-sided, stackable glass for beer, soda, etc.
- A musical percussion instrument filled with granular solids which produce a rhythmic sound when shaken.
- One who holds railroad spikes while they are hammered.
- a person who wields power and influence
- a container in which something can be shaken
verb
- To shake (vigorously); to tremble.
- To cause (someone) to hurry; to hasten, to hurry.
- To move quickly, to rush, to whiz; also, to make a rushing sound; to whizz.
- Of the wind: to blow loudly and vigorously; to bluster; also, of an animal, etc.: to make a loud noise; to bellow, to roar.
- To throw (something) forcefully; to hurl; also, to beat, to thrash.
adv
- To the place in or to which.
- (generally) In or to any place to which; to whatever place; wherever.
- To which place; also (after a noun denoting a place) to which.
- (figurative, also humorous) To what (future) cause, condition or state, reason, etc.; where, where next; also (obsolete) to what extent; how far.
- To what place; where.
noun
- (formal, archaic except literary or poetic) A place to which someone or something goes; also, a condition to which someone or something moves.
- A state of rushed action; a haste, a hurry; also, a state of anger or excitement.
- The sound of something moving quickly; a rush, a whiz.
- A gust of wind; a bluster.
- A forceful blow or hit.
- An act of shaking (vigorously); a shiver, a tremble; also, a slight bout of discomfort or illness.
verb
noun
verb
- To rattle or shake (something).
- To inhibit or restrain the ability, action, activity, or progress of (someone or something); to render (someone or something) incapable or ineffectual.
- To connect or couple (something) to another thing using a shackle (noun etymology 1 sense 1.1.1, etymology 1 sense 1.1.3, etc.).
- (intransitive) Often followed by about: to be idle or lazy; to avoid work.
- To place (a person or animal) in shackles (noun etymology 1 sense 1); to immobilize or restrain using shackles.
- (intransitive, reflexive) Of two things: to connect or couple together.
- To provide (something) with a shackle.
- To put (something) into disorder; specifically (agriculture), to cause (standing stalks of corn) to fall over.
- restrain with fetters
- bind the arms of
noun
- A hook, ring, or other device for connecting, holding, lifting, etc.; specifically (nautical), a small incomplete ring secured with a bolt across the ends, used to connect lengths of cable or chain together, or to keep a porthole closed.
- (agriculture) Synonym of hobble or hopple (“a short strap tied between the legs of a horse, allowing it to wander a short distance but not to run off”).
- (nautical) A length of cable or chain equal to 12½ fathoms (75 feet or about 22.9 metres), or later to 15 fathoms (90 feet or about 27.4 metres).
- (usually in the plural) A restraint fitted over a human or animal appendage, such as an ankle, finger, or wrist, normally used in a pair joined by a chain.
- Part of a padlock that consists of a loop of metal (round or square in cross section) that encompasses what is being secured by the lock.
- (dice games) A dice game; also, an event at which tickets are sold for chances to be drawn to win prizes; a raffle.
- A person who is idle or lazy; an idler.
- (rail transport) A link for connecting railroad cars; a draglink, drawbar, or drawlink.
- A U-shaped piece of metal secured with a bolt or pin across the ends, or a hinged metal loop secured with a quick-release locking pin mechanism, used for attaching things together while allowing for some degree of movement; a clevis.
- (figurative, usually in the plural) A restraint on one's action, activity, or progress.
- a U-shaped bar; the open end can be passed through chain links and closed with a bar
- a restraint that confines or restricts freedom (especially something used to tie down or restrain a prisoner)
verb
- To jerk; to jolt; to be shaken.
- (intransitive) To spray out of a container.
- (transitive) To spray with liquid from a container.
- To shoot forward or out; to project; to jut out.
- To strut; to walk with a lofty or haughty gait; to be insolent; to obtrude.
- (intransitive) To move (running, walking etc.) rapidly around
- (intransitive) To travel on a jet aircraft or otherwise by jet propulsion
- To adjust the fuel to air ratio of a carburetor; to install or adjust a carburetor jet
- (slang, intransitive) To leave; depart.
- fly a jet plane
- issue in a jet; come out in a jet; stream or spring forth
adj
noun
- The colour of jet coal, deep grey.
- (mathematics) an operation that takes a differentiable function f and produces a polynomial, the Taylor polynomial (truncated Taylor series) of f, at each point of its domain.
- A turbine.
- (mineralogy) A hard, black form of coal, sometimes used in jewellery.
- A spout or nozzle for creating a jet of fluid.
- (physics) A narrow cone of hadrons and other particles produced by the hadronization of a quark or gluon.
- A part of a carburetor that controls the amount of fuel mixed with the air.
- (aviation) A type of airplane using jet engines rather than propellers.
- A collimated stream, spurt or flow of liquid or gas from a pressurized container, an engine, etc.
- A rocket engine.
- a hard black form of lignite that takes a brilliant polish and is used in jewelry or ornamentation
- atmospheric discharges (lasting 10 msec) bursting from the tops of giant storm clouds in blue cones that widen as they flash upward
- the occurrence of a sudden discharge (as of liquid)
- an airplane powered by one or more jet engines
- street names for ketamine
- an artificially produced flow of water
verb
noun
verb
- tremble or shake
- dance a shimmy
- (intransitive, video games) To move across a narrow ledge, either by hanging from it or by strafing on it along the wall.
- (intransitive, rare) To shake the body as if dancing the shimmy.
- (dance) To perform a shimmy (dance movement involving thrusting the shoulders back and forth alternately).
- To climb something (e.g. a pole) gradually (e.g. using alternately one's arms then one's legs).
- (intransitive) To vibrate abnormally, as a broken wheel.
noun
- a woman's sleeveless undergarment
- an abnormal wobble in a motor vehicle (especially in the front wheels)
- lively dancing (usually to ragtime music) with much shaking of the shoulders and hips
- (rare) A sleeveless chemise.
- An abnormal vibration, especially in the wheels of a vehicle.
- A dance that was popular in the 1920s.
- A dance move involving thrusting the shoulders back and forth alternately.
verb
noun
noun
verb
verb
- (intransitive) To shake; to move with a series of jerks.
- (transitive) To shock emotionally.
- (transitive) To knock sharply
- (transitive) To shock (someone) into taking action or being alert
- (transitive) To push or shake abruptly and roughly.
- move or cause to move with a sudden jerky motion
- disturb (someone's) composure
noun
verb
- (intransitive) To shake, wiggle around.
- To chase after; especially, to chase after and return (a ball) hit usually out of play.
- (transitive) To make hairy or shaggy; to roughen.
- (UK, Ireland, Australia, intransitive, slang, vulgar) To have sex.
- (India, transitive, slang, vulgar) To masturbate.
- (dance, uncommon) To perform the dance called the shag.
- (UK, Ireland, Australia, transitive, slang, vulgar) To have sex with.
- dance the shag
adj
noun
- Coarse shredded tobacco.
- (West Country) Friend; mate; buddy.
- (slang, vulgar) An act of sex.
- Any of several species of sea birds in the family Phalacrocoracidae (cormorant family), especially a common shag or European shag (Phalacrocorax aristotelis), found on European and African coasts.
- (slang, vulgar) A casual sexual partner.
- (often attributive) A deliberately messy, shaggy hairstyle.
- (dance, sometimes capitalized) A swing dance.
- Matted material; rough massed hair, fibres etc.
- A type of rough carpet pile.
- (Northwestern Ontario) A fundraising dance in honour of a couple engaged to be married.
- a fabric with long coarse nap
- a lively dance step consisting of hopping on each foot in turn
- slang for sexual intercourse
- a strong coarse tobacco that has been shredded
- a matted tangle of hair or fiber
verb
- (transitive) To agitate by shaking.
- (transitive) To restore to its original shape by shaking.
- (transitive, informal, idiomatic) To upset or distress (a person).
- (transitive, informal) To reorganize, to make reforms in.
- organize anew
- shake; especially (a patient to detect fluids or air in the body)
- make fuller by shaking
- change the arrangement or position of
- stir the feelings, emotions, or peace of
- shock physically
verb
- shake uncontrollably
- cause to contract
- move or stir about violently
- contract involuntarily, as in a spasm
- be overcome with laughter
- make someone convulse with laughter
- (intransitive) To suffer violent involuntary contractions of the muscles, causing one's body to contort.
- (transitive) To cause disruption to.
- (transitive) To cause (someone) to suffer such contractions, especially as a result of making them laugh heartily.
- (intransitive, figurative) To be beset by political or social upheaval.
verb
noun
- the act of vibrating
- case for holding arrows
- an almost pleasurable sensation of fright
- a shaky motion
- (weaponry) A container for arrows, crossbow bolts or darts, such as those fired from a bow, crossbow or blowgun.
- (figuratively) A ready storage location for figurative tools or weapons.
- (mathematics) A multidigraph, especially in the context of representation theory.
noun
- The act of shaking or being shaken; tremulous or back-and-forth motion.
- (building material) A thin shingle.
- A basic wooden shingle made from split logs, traditionally used for roofing etc.
- A beverage made by adding ice cream to a (usually carbonated) drink; a float.
- A shook of staves and headings.
- (usually preceded by definite article) A dance popular in the 1960s in which the head, limbs, and body are shaken.
- (UK, dialect) The redshank, so called from the nodding of its head while on the ground.
- (US, slang, uncountable) An adulterant added to cocaine powder.
- (music) In singing, notes (usually high ones) sung vibrato.
- (music) A rapid alternation of a principal tone with another represented on the next degree of the staff above or below it; a trill.
- (nautical) One of the staves of a hogshead or barrel taken apart.
- A shock or disturbance.
- (usually in the plural) A twitch, a spasm, a tremor.
- Shake cannabis, small, leafy fragments of cannabis that gather at the bottom of a bag of marijuana.
- A milkshake.
- (historical, nuclear physics) An informal unit of time equal to 10 nanoseconds.
- A crack or split between the growth rings in wood.
- (informal) Instant, second. (Especially in two shakes.)
- A fissure in rock or earth.
- frothy drink of milk and flavoring and sometimes fruit or ice cream
- a reflex motion caused by cold or fear or excitement
- building material used as siding or roofing
- causing to move repeatedly from side to side
- a note that alternates rapidly with another note a semitone above it
- grasping and shaking a person's hand (as to acknowledge an introduction or to agree on a contract)
verb
- shake (a body part) to communicate a greeting, feeling, or cognitive state
- (intransitive, figurative) To be agitated; to lose firmness.
- (transitive, figurative) To threaten to overthrow.
- (transitive, idiomatic) To lose, evade, or get rid of (something).
- (intransitive) To move from side to side.
- (transitive) To disturb emotionally; to shock.
- (transitive) To move or remove by agitating; to throw off by a jolting or vibrating motion.
- (transitive) To give a tremulous tone to; to trill.
- (transitive) To move (one's head) from side to side, especially to indicate refusal, reluctance, or disapproval.
- (intransitive) To dance.
- (intransitive, usually as "shake on") To shake hands.
- (transitive, ergative) To cause (something) to move rapidly in opposite directions alternatingly.
- move with or as if with a tremor
- shake or vibrate rapidly and intensively
- move or cause to move back and forth
- stir the feelings, emotions, or peace of
- undermine or cause to waver
- bring to a specified condition by or as if by shaking
- move back and forth or sideways
- get rid of
adv
adj
- having a strong physiological or chemical effect
- strong, vigorous
- rigidly formal
- not moving or operating freely
- incapable of or resistant to bending
- marked by firm determination or resolution; not shakable
- very drunk
- (nautical) Keeping upright.
- (informal) Expensive, pricey.
- (of a person) Formal in behavior; unrelaxed.
- (professional wrestling, of a strike) Delivered more forcefully than needed, whether intentionally or accidentally, thus causing legitimate pain to the opponent.
- (of muscles or parts of the body) Painful or more rigid than usual as a result of excessive or unaccustomed exercise.
- (of an object) Rigid; hard to bend; inflexible.
- Potent.
- (informal) Dead, deceased.
- (golf) Of a shot, landing so close to the flagstick that it should be very easy to sink the ball with the next shot.
- (slang, of the penis) Erect.
- (mathematics) Of an equation, for which certain numerical solving methods are numerically unstable, unless the step size is taken to be extremely small.
- (figurative, of policies and rules and their application and enforcement) Inflexible; rigid.
- Having a dense consistency; thick; (by extension) Difficult to stir.
- (colloquial) Harsh, severe.
- (cooking, of whipping cream or egg whites) Beaten until so aerated that they stand up straight on their own.
noun
- the dead body of a human being
- an ordinary man
- (prison slang) A note or letter surreptitiously sent by an inmate.
- (slang) A cadaver; a dead person.
- (slang) A person who is deceived, as a mark or pigeon in a swindle.
- (slang, chiefly Canada, US) An average person, usually male, of no particular distinction, skill, or education.
- (slang) A flop; a commercial failure.
- (US, slang, by extension) A customer who does not leave a tip.
- (US, slang) A person who leaves (especially a restaurant) without paying the bill.
- (finance, slang) Negotiable instruments, possibly forged.
- (blackjack) Any hard hand where it is possible to exceed 21 by drawing an additional card.
verb
adj
- Easily shaken; tottering; unsound.
- Shaking or trembling.
- (of wood) Full of shakes or cracks; cracked.
- Nervous, anxious.
- Wavering; undecided.
- vibrating slightly and irregularly; as e.g. with fear or cold or like the leaves of an aspen in a breeze
- not secure; beset with difficulties
- inclined to shake as from weakness or defect