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▸ verb: (transitive) To move (one's head) from side to side, especially to indicate refusal, reluctance, or disapproval.
▸ verb: (transitive) To move or remove by agitating; to throw off by a jolting or vibrating motion.
▸ verb: (transitive) To disturb emotionally; to shock.
▸ verb: (transitive) To lose, evade, or get rid of (something).
▸ verb: (intransitive) To move from side to side.
▸ verb: (intransitive, usually as "shake on") To shake hands.
▸ verb: (intransitive) To dance.
▸ verb: (transitive) To give a tremulous tone to; to trill.
▸ verb: (transitive, figurative) To threaten to overthrow.
▸ verb: (intransitive, figurative) To be agitated; to lose firmness.
▸ noun: The act of shaking or being shaken; tremulous or back-and-forth motion.
▸ noun: (usually in the plural) A twitch, a spasm, a tremor.
▸ noun: A milkshake.
▸ noun: A beverage made by adding ice cream to a (usually carbonated) drink; a float.
▸ noun: Shake cannabis, small, leafy fragments of cannabis that gather at the bottom of a bag of marijuana.
▸ noun: (US, slang, uncountable) An adulterant added to cocaine powder.
▸ noun: (building material) A thin shingle.
▸ noun: A crack or split between the growth rings in wood.
▸ noun: A fissure in rock or earth.
▸ noun: A basic wooden shingle made from split logs, traditionally used for roofing etc.
▸ noun: (informal) Instant, second. (Especially in two shakes.)
▸ noun: (nautical) One of the staves of a hogshead or barrel taken apart.
▸ noun: (music) A rapid alternation of a principal tone with another represented on the next degree of the staff above or below it; a trill.
▸ noun: (music) In singing, notes (usually high ones) sung vibrato.
▸ noun: A shook of staves and headings.
▸ noun: (UK, dialect) The redshank, so called from the nodding of its head while on the ground.
▸ noun: A shock or disturbance.
▸ noun: A surname.
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