Definitions for shrugs

shrugs shrug

Spelling: [shruhg]
IPA: /ʃrʌg/

Shrugs is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 56 anagrams from letters in shrugs (ghrssu).

Definitions for shrugs

noun

  1. the movement of raising and contracting the shoulders.
  2. a short sweater or jacket that ends above or at the waistline.

Verb phrases

  1. shrug off, to disregard; minimize: to rid oneself of:

verb (used with object)

  1. to raise and contract (the shoulders), expressing indifference, disdain, etc.

verb (used without object)

  1. to raise and contract the shoulders.

Origin of shrugs

1350-1400; (v.) Middle English schruggen to shudder, shrug late Middle English shrugge a tug, pull, derivative of the v.

Examples for shrugs

"That you will find out," she said, with a shrug of her shoulders.

“The girls I used to race with would just pull their pants around their ankles and hang off the back,” Ralphie says with I shrug.

The shoulders of Mr Verloc, without actually moving, suggested a shrug.

A machine which makes a Frenchman shrug his shoulders with good reason.

Mason ambles through life, free to enjoy the little moments and shrug off the big ones, just like his father did before him.

Of course this gets at the heart of why some attacks on black Republicans inspire a shrug.

Yet, relative to the massive amount of attention, shock, and criticism, I can only muster a shrug and a plea to chill out.

He returned with a shrug of the shoulders to his table in the morning-room.

Around my own friends, someone will wind up a conversation with a shrug and a baffling—to me—utterance of “Haters gonna hate.”

"They are paying themselves for the mules and horses," said Fray Henriques with a shrug.

Word Value for shrugs
Scrable

9

Words with friends

10

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