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Recent Examples of shimmy
As Lady Gaga strutted out and shimmied in a shimmering flapper-like ensemble, complete with a magnificent lob and feather coat, the chart-topping artist — tonight pulling double-duty as musical guest and host of Saturday Night Live — had no trouble turning the joke on herself.
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Natalie Oganesyan, Deadline, 8 Mar. 2025
On those lazy afternoons over homemade biscuits and steak and eggs, when the restaurant was a little slower, Hal would shimmy into a booth with us.
—Brad Johnson, Los Angeles Times, 8 Apr. 2025
In the clip, Lopez shimmies her shoulders before planting a kiss on her child's head.
—Catherine Santino, People.com, 24 Mar. 2025
With his quirky lisp, wacky energy, and tinny vocal quiver, Carrey's cable guy Chip flails around against the backdrop of a psychedelic karaoke screen, hip-thrusting and shimmying his way across a house party as the elderly crowd gets their groove on.
—Ew Staff Published, EW.com, 20 Mar. 2025
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Natalie Oganesyan, Deadline, 8 Mar. 2025
On those lazy afternoons over homemade biscuits and steak and eggs, when the restaurant was a little slower, Hal would shimmy into a booth with us.
—Brad Johnson, Los Angeles Times, 8 Apr. 2025
In the clip, Lopez shimmies her shoulders before planting a kiss on her child's head.
—Catherine Santino, People.com, 24 Mar. 2025
With his quirky lisp, wacky energy, and tinny vocal quiver, Carrey's cable guy Chip flails around against the backdrop of a psychedelic karaoke screen, hip-thrusting and shimmying his way across a house party as the elderly crowd gets their groove on.
—Ew Staff Published, EW.com, 20 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for shimmy
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Fans in the away end were clambering over each other to sing their anthem about travelling to the Basque country, growing loud on loop in the second half as the game drifted, while Ruben Amorim made his selections and substitutions with the showpiece occasion on Wednesday in mind.—
Laurie Whitwell,
New York Times,
17 May 2025
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Music blared as children clambered on the stage table, where Red Cross representatives had signed handover documents just minutes before.—
Mithil Aggarwal,
NBC News,
28 Jan. 2025
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Fanning out like urban guerrillas through Paris’ darkened streets well after midnight, the anti-waste activists shinny up walls and drain pipes, reaching for switches to turn off the lights. Click.—
The Christian Science Monitor,
The Christian Science Monitor,
3 Aug. 2022
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The slippery custom began a half-century ago merely as a means to dissuade drunken daredevils from attempting to shinny up the poles in order to mingle with paying guests.—
DOUG MACCASH | Staff writer,
NOLA.com,
25 Jan. 2021
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Curaçao August is great for: retro-minded music fans ready to boogie.—
Mark Ellwood,
AFAR Media,
26 May 2025
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Popular since at least the early 1970s, poppers were thought to enhance pleasure in the bedroom and while boogieing on disco dance floors to anthems by the likes of Donna Summer and Loleatta Holloway.—
Jacob Bernstein,
New York Times,
27 Mar. 2025
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Mays hit for both power and for average while also shinning at running, throwing and fielding.—
Ray Sanchez,
CNN,
19 June 2024
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The levante is the easterly blow favored by windsurfers that causes heavy swells, casts apocalyptic clouds, and gives shins an unwanted microdermabrasion.—
Lydia Bell,
Condé Nast Traveler,
29 May 2024
Verb
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And so all those things were bopping around my head.—
Nick Romano,
EW.com,
5 May 2025
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At 8 years old, Wellman was bopping around the backside at Del Mar, and at 14, working as a groom.—
Dana O'Neil,
New York Times,
1 May 2025
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As its formula guards skin against damaging UV rays, a hydrating combination of hyaluronic acid, glycerin, and ectoin plump, smooth, and calm redness and irritation.—
Jennifer Hussein,
Allure,
3 Apr. 2025
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The formula is a gel-cream that hydrates skin with such ingredients as collagen-boosting copper peptides, smoothing saccharide isomerate, moisture-retaining sodium PCA, and calming zinc oxide.—
Danielle Sinay,
Glamour,
8 May 2025
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Both dogs are fairly large, but both struggled to climb into the Velar’s boot, even with the clever Access suspension lowering mode enabled.—
Matthew MacConnell,
Forbes.com,
21 May 2025
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As protesters attempted to stop the congressional certification of the 2020 presidential election, Babbitt was climbing through the broken window of a barricaded door to the Speaker’s Lobby when she was shot.—
City News Service,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
21 May 2025
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At Sunday’s Women’s FA Cup final, which Chelsea won 3-0 against Manchester United to clinch a historic undefeated domestic treble, Williams waltzed through the mixed zone first, the entourage — including her husband — trailing behind the tennis great, cherubs in her wake.—
Asli Pelit,
New York Times,
19 May 2025
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Kansas City has won the division nine straight years and waltzed to the title again in 2024.—
Parker Gabriel,
Denver Post,
12 May 2025
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“Shimmy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/shimmy. Accessed 3 Jun. 2025.
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