shimmy

n.

US //ˈʃɪmi// UK //ʃˈɪmi// shim·my

Archaic

Origin

A back-formation from chemise (mistaken for a plural).

Etymology adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Idioms1 entry

01
shimmy on down
To go somewhere.

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