noun

• (rare) A sleeveless chemise.

verb

• (dance) To perform a shimmy (dance movement involving thrusting the shoulders back and forth alternately).
  "She wondered would he think her awful, and try to get fresh if she shimmied. Fellows often did. But he was so cute. And a girl had to something about that, and if she didn't shimmy, she might do something worse."
• (intransitive) To vibrate abnormally, as a broken wheel.
  "They came in among earth-moving machines, a total absence of trees, the usual hieratic geometry, and eventually, shimmying for the sand roads, down in a helix to a sculptured body of water named Lake Inverarity."
• (intransitive, rare) To shake the body as if dancing the shimmy.
• (intransitive, video games) To move across a narrow ledge, either by hanging from it or by strafing on it along the wall.
  "Jump up to the ledge on your right and shimmy around the corner."