an abnormal wobble in a motor vehicle (especially in the front wheels); "he could feel the shimmy in the steering wheel"
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shimmy
How to use shimmy in a sentence. Example sentences and definitions for shimmy.
Editorial note
Make sure you go fast enough, say 70 MPH, and it should not shake or shimmy.
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Definitions5
Parts of speech2
Quick take
an abnormal wobble in a motor vehicle (especially in the front wheels); "he could feel the shimmy in the steering wheel"
Meaning at a glance
The clearest senses and uses of shimmy gathered in one view.
a woman's sleeveless undergarment
lively dancing (usually to ragtime music) with much shaking of the shoulders and hips
Definitions
Core meanings and parts of speech for shimmy.
noun
an abnormal wobble in a motor vehicle (especially in the front wheels); "he could feel the shimmy in the steering wheel"
noun
a woman's sleeveless undergarment
noun
lively dancing (usually to ragtime music) with much shaking of the shoulders and hips
verb
tremble or shake; "His voice wobbled with restrained emotion"
See also: wobble
verb
dance a shimmy
Example sentences
Make sure you go fast enough, say 70 MPH, and it should not shake or shimmy.
I don't think I want to do it again, since the bike started to give a rather worrying 8 Hz shimmy, but I did it.
Every atom in you has been dancing the shimmy in silver shoes nonstop from mitosis to now.
I had to run at least 75Hz on a CRT or I'd have too much "shimmy" in the image and would get a headache in a few minutes of work.
Their bar for this is obviously incredibly low, but you managed to shimmy under it while grinding an axe at the same time.
How would you shimmy down the ladder?But yes I suppose technically you can have rollers in vertical struts and have them roll down inside the rails, carrying the person.
Unbalanced wheels are annoying, but they aren't dangerous unless the shimmy is extreme, like when you have a lot of mud stuck in your wheels, in which case wheel weights won't help anyway.
Unless they get really close with local regulators, but I doubt they have it in them to shimmy up with the local fuzz to be the most favoured credit bureau in Paraguay.
Another reason I advocate every spinup should have FDE by default with a ssh key entry shimmy at initram, or is this runtime cpu acccess so it gets anything live?
Frequently asked questions
Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.
How do you use shimmy in a sentence?
Make sure you go fast enough, say 70 MPH, and it should not shake or shimmy.
What does shimmy mean?
an abnormal wobble in a motor vehicle (especially in the front wheels); "he could feel the shimmy in the steering wheel"
What part of speech is shimmy?
shimmy is commonly used as noun, verb.