shimmy shake
English
[edit]Noun
[edit]- 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.