shimmy

A dance move involving thrusting the shoulders back and forth alternately.

A dance that was popular in the 1920s.

The tango, the Texas Tommy, Walking the Dog, the one step, the fox trot, the shimmy, and all their out-growths, had their origin in the palaces of lust on the Barbary Coast of San Francisco.

An abnormal vibration, especially in the wheels of a vehicle.

A sleeveless chemise.

To perform a shimmy (dance movement involving thrusting the shoulders back and forth alternately).

She wondered would he think her awful, and try to get fresh if she shimmied. Fellows often did. But he was so cute. And a girl had to something about that, and if she didn't shimmy, she might do something worse.

To climb something (e.g. a pole) gradually (e.g. using alternately one's arms then one's legs).

He shimmied up the flagpole.

The static made her dress shimmy up her leg.

To vibrate abnormally, as a broken wheel.

They came in among earth-moving machines, a total absence of trees, the usual hieratic geometry, and eventually, shimmying for the sand roads, down in a helix to a sculptured body of water named Lake Inverarity.

To shake the body as if dancing the shimmy.

To move across a narrow ledge, either by hanging from it or by strafing on it along the wall.

Jump up to the ledge on your right and shimmy around the corner.

Climb on top of the room and drop down to shimmy along its back ledge.