What is the meaning of SHAKE. Phrases containing SHAKE
See meanings and uses of SHAKE!Slangs & AI meanings
Not much, not so good. "His horse riding abilities are no great shakes." Also means a moment, an instant. "Hold on, I'll get to it a couple of shakes." Also means a good opportunity, offer, bargain, or chance. "He gave me a good shake on that land."
A wake-up call. A book called the "shake-book" is kept, and it contains the names, bunk numbers and times of sailors that need to be awoken, or "shook", during the night. Just like in a fancy hotel with a wake-up call, but in this case, it's one of your shipmates touching your shoulder or grabbing your foot.
marijuana
To obtain, get, procure. "Can you help me shake up a fiddle player for the barn dance?
material needed to freebase cocaine i.e. shaker bottle, baking soda and water
, (shake) n., The less desirable parts of the marijuana plant, that which is left over, shaken onto the table, after the best part, the buds, have been taken out. “Hey, I can just give you some of this shake.â€Â See: Bammer. [Etym., drug]
SHAKE HANDS WITH THE UNEMPLOYED
Shake hands with the unemployed is slang for urinate. The term is used by men.
Shake down is American slang for to extort money from, especially by blackmail or threats of violence.Shake down is American slang for to search thoroughly.
Materials needed to freebase cocaine: shaker bottle, baking soda, water
River. He jumped right into the shake
Shake your shambles was th century slang for go away.
an officer straight out of OCS (Officer Candidate School) without any combat experience.
Shake is British slang for to alert, rouse. Shake is British slang for masturbate. Shake is Australian slang for to steal.
Shake dancer is American slang for a femal dancer who shakes her breasts to music.
When a man is puzzled to give one an idea of a very great number, he calls it 'more than you can shake a stick at.'
Shake and shiver is theatre rhyming slang for a river.
No great shakes. Of no great value, little worth.
The time scale within which somethng will be done, i.e. as fast as it takes to shakes a lambs tail three times. (ed: in the UK I rememeber it being two shakes - but the Aussies must be more laid back)
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n.
A series of three dramas which, although each of them is in one sense complete, have a close mutual relation, and form one historical and poetical picture. Shakespeare's " Henry VI." is an example.
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A word of doubtful meaning used once by Shakespeare.
p. p.
of Shake
v.
To give a tremulous tone to; to trill; as, to shake a note in music.
n.
A person or thing that shakes, or by means of which something is shaken.
n.
A trill or shake. See Trill.
v. i.
To quaver or shake, as sound; to be tremulous; as the voice trembles.
n.
A shake or quaver of the voice in singing, or of the sound of an instrument, produced by the rapid alternation of two contiguous tones of the scale; as, to give a trill on the high C. See Shake.
v. i.
To move one way and the other; to be shaken to and fro; to vibrate.
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Doctrines of the Shakers.
v.
The act of wagging; a shake; as, a wag of the head.
v. t. & i.
To cause to shake; to tremble; to move tremulously, as from weakness; to totter.
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Cracked or checked; split. See Shake, n., 2.
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Caused to shake; agitated; as, a shaken bough.
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To move or remove by agitating; to throw off by a jolting or vibrating motion; to rid one's self of; -- generally with an adverb, as off, out, etc.; as, to shake fruit down from a tree.
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Not capable of being shaken; firm; fixed.
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Of, pertaining to, or in the style of, Shakespeare or his works.
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A female Shaker.
v. t.
To move one way and the other with quick turns; to shake to and fro; to move vibratingly; to cause to vibrate, as a part of the body; as, to wag the head.
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