Definitions for shooks

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shooks shook

Spelling: [shoo k]

IPA: /ʃʊk/

Shooks is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 39 anagrams from letters in shooks (hkooss).

Definitions for shooks

noun

1. a set of staves and headings sufficient for one hogshead, barrel, or the like.
2. a set of the parts of a box, piece of furniture, or the like, ready to be put together.
3. a shock of sheaves or the like.
4. an act or instance of shaking, rocking, swaying, etc.
5. tremulous motion.
6. a tremor.
7. shakes, (used with a singular verb) Informal. a state or spell of trembling, as caused by fear, fever, cold, etc. (usually preceded by the).
8. a disturbing blow; shock.
9. Informal. milk shake.
10. the act or a manner of clasping another's hand in greeting, agreement, etc.:
11. Informal. chance or fate; deal:
12. a cast of the dice:
13. something resulting from shaking.
14. an earthquake.
15. a fissure in the earth.
16. an internal crack or fissure in timber.
17. Music. trill1 (def 9).
18. an instant:
19. Carpentry. a shingle or clapboard formed by splitting a short log into a number of tapered radial sections with a hatchet.
20. Horology. (in an escapement) the distance between the nearer corner of one pallet and the nearest tooth of the escape wheel when the other pallet arrests an escape tooth.
21. Chiefly South Midland U.S. shaker (def 2).
22. a dance deriving from the twist.
23. Slang. the dried leaves of the marijuana plant.

verb

1. simple past tense of shake.
2. Nonstandard. a past participle of shake.

Idioms

1. no great shakes, Informal. of no particular ability; unimportant; common:
2. shake a leg, Informal. to hurry up; get a move on: to dance.
3. shake hands. hand (def 79).
4. shake one's head, to indicate disapproval, disagreement, negation, or uncertainty by turning one's head from one side to the other and back: to indicate approval, agreement, affirmation or acceptance by nodding one's head up and down.
5. shake the dust from one's feet. dust (def 26).
6. two shakes (of a lamb's tail), a very short time; a moment.

adjective

1. Also, shook up. Slang. strongly affected by an event, circumstance, etc.; emotionally unsettled:

Verb phrases

1. shake down, to cause to descend by shaking; bring down. to cause to settle. to condition; test: Informal. to extort money from. Slang. to search (someone), especially to detect concealed weapons.
2. shake off, to rid oneself of; reject. to get away from; leave behind. Baseball, Softball. (of a pitcher) to indicate rejection of (a sign by the catcher for a certain pitch) by shaking the head or motioning with the glove.
3. shake up, to shake in order to mix or loosen. to upset; jar. to agitate mentally or physically:

verb (used with object)

1. to move (something or its support or container) to and fro or up and down with short, quick, forcible movements:
2. to brandish or flourish:
3. to grasp (someone or something) firmly in an attempt to move or rouse by, or as by, vigorous movement to and fro:
4. to dislodge or dispense (something) by short, quick, forcible movements of its support or container:
5. to cause to sway, rock, totter, etc.:
6. to agitate or disturb profoundly in feeling:
7. to cause to doubt or waver; weaken. to shake one's self-esteem.
8. Music. to trill (a note).
9. to mix (dice) by rolling in the palm of the hand before they are cast.
10. to get rid of; elude:

verb (used without object)

1. to move or sway with short, quick, irregular vibratory movements.
2. to tremble with emotion, cold, etc.
3. to become dislodged and fall (usually followed by off or down):
4. to move something, or its support or container, briskly to and fro or up and down, as in mixing:
5. to totter; become unsteady.
6. to clasp another's hand in greeting, agreement, congratulations, etc.:
7. Music. to execute a trill.

Origin of shooks

1760-70; short for shook cask, variant of shaken cask one dismounted for shipment

Examples for shooks

When the queen heard this once again, she trembled and shook with rage.

She shook her head and the fancy cleared away, and then others came.

At dinner she shook and jerked and spilt things worse than ever.

He invited them to enter, and shook Katherine by the hand, as if he had not met her for a long time.

“They basically said thanks a lot and shook our hands and took off,” Stammberger said.

There was a certain careless calm about this that shook Andrew to his center again.

I was like, “Does that… does that mean…” And then he stood up and shook my hand.

She untied the bit of calico string with fingers that shook from excitement.

“We all shook hands and my client told me to leave,” he said.

In 2010 Cuba provided the largest contingent of medical staff during the aftermath of the huge earthquake that shook Haiti.