Usually means: Disrupt routine to inspire change.
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We found 23 dictionaries that define the word shake up:

General (18 matching dictionaries)
  1. shake up: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. shake-up, shake up: Merriam-Webster
  3. shake-up: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. shake-up, shake up: Collins English Dictionary
  5. shake-up, shake up: Vocabulary.com
  6. Shake-Up, Shake-up, shake-up: Wordnik
  7. shake-up, shake up: Wiktionary
  8. shake-up: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. shake-up: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. shake-up: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. shake-up, shake up: Dictionary.com
  12. shake-up, shake up: Rhymezone
  13. shake-up, shake up: FreeDictionary.org
  14. shake-up, shake up: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. shake-up, shake up: TheFreeDictionary.com
  16. shake-up: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. shake up: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. shake up: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. shake up: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. shake up: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. shake up: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (shake up)

▸ verb:  (transitive) To agitate by shaking.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To restore to its original shape by shaking.
▸ verb:  (transitive, informal) To upset or distress (a person).
▸ verb:  (transitive, informal) To reorganize, to make reforms in.

Similar:
shake, stir up, stir, agitate, excite, disturb, fluff up, commove, raise up, plump up, more...

Opposite:
stabilize, calm, settle, soothe, steady

Phrases:
Shake Me Up, Shake It Up & Other Hits, shake it up, shake things up, shake up and down, more...

Adjectives:
shakable, tossing, poss, atumble, welter, smashing, smasheroo, shuffling, shy, bustled, crank



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Similar:
shake, stir up, stir, agitate, excite, disturb, fluff up, commove, raise up, plump up, more...

Opposite:
stabilize, calm, settle, soothe, steady

Phrases:
Shake Me Up, Shake It Up & Other Hits, shake it up, shake things up, shake up and down, more...

Adjectives:
shakable, tossing, poss, atumble, welter, smashing, smasheroo, shuffling, shy, bustled, crank



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