Usually means: Vibrate, agitate, or move rapidly.
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We found 47 dictionaries that define the word shake:

General (29 matching dictionaries)
  1. shake: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. shake: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. shake: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. shake: Collins English Dictionary
  5. shake: Vocabulary.com
  6. Shake, shake: Wordnik
  7. shake: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Shake, shake: Wiktionary
  9. shake: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. shake: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. shake: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. shake, the shake: Dictionary.com
  13. shake (n.), shake (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. shake: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
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  16. Shake: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. shake: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. shake: Rhymezone
  19. shake: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. shake: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. shake: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  22. shake: Free Dictionary
  23. shake: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  24. shake: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. Shake, shake: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  26. shake: Dictionary/thesaurus
  27. shake: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary (No longer online)

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  2. shake: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. shake: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. shake: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. shake: Idioms

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. shake: Archaeology Wordsmith
  2. How Many? A Dictionary of Units of Measurement (No longer online)

Slang (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. shake, shake, shake: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Shake: Street Terms: Drugs and the Drug Trade
  3. shake: The Folk File
  4. The Shake: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Shake: Backgammon

Tech (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Book Binding (No longer online)
  2. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  3. Shake: Construction Glossary
  4. Urban Conservation Glossary (No longer online)

(Note: See shakable as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (transitive, ergative) To cause (something) to move rapidly in opposite directions alternatingly.
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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