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TWL06 (NASPA List 2006)
"Shake" Definition
noun
A beverage in which the ingredients are mixed by shaking.
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A crack in timber caused by wind or frost.
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A fissure in rock.
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A rough shingle used to cover rustic buildings, such as barns: cedar shakes.
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A trembling or quivering movement.
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verb-transitive
Games To rattle and mix (dice) before casting.
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Music To trill (a note).
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To cause to lose stability or waver: a crisis that shook my deepest beliefs.
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To cause to move to and fro with jerky movements.
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To cause to quiver, tremble, vibrate, or rock.
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idiom
Give (someone) the shake Slang To escape from or get rid of: We managed to give our pursuers the shake.
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No great shakes Slang Unexceptional; ordinary: "stepping in between the victim and the bully, even when the victim happens to be no great shakes” ( Louis Auchincloss).
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Shake a leg Informal To dance.
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Shake a leg Informal To move quickly; hurry up.
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Shake a stick at Slang To point out, designate, or name: "All of a sudden there came into being a vast conservative infrastructure: think-tanks . . . and more foundations than you could shake a stick at” ( National Review).
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verb-intransitive
Music To trill.
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To be unsteady; totter or waver.
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To move something vigorously up and down or from side to side, as in mixing.
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To move to and fro in short, irregular, often jerky movements.
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To tremble, as from cold or in anger.
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phrasal-verb
Shake down Slang To extort money from.
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Shake down To become acclimated or accustomed, as to a new environment or a new job.
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Shake down To subject (a new ship or aircraft) to shakedown testing.
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Shake off To free oneself of; get rid of: We shook off our fears.
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Shake up To subject to a drastic rearrangement or reorganization: new management bent on shaking up the company.
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