shimmy shake

English

Noun

shimmy shake

  1. A jazz dance originating in the 1910s in which the shoulders, breasts, hips, and knees were rapidly shaken.
    • 1930, Jefferis & Nichols, Safe Counsel or Practical Eugenics, page 209:
      Some of the so-called best people in the profession are using the shimmy shake in song, dance and pantomime.
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