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shaking it up

shaking it up is the present participle and gerund of shake it up.

Meaning of shake it up

Verb

shake it up (third-person singular simple present shakes it up, present participle shaking it up, simple past shook it up, past participle shaken it up)

  1. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see shake up, it.
  2. (slang) To dance.
    • Revi and April shakin' it up to Junkyard's mixes...1995 February, caption, in FaT GiRL, number 2, page 28

Questions about shaking it up

What is shaking it up the present participle and gerund of?
Shaking it up is the present participle and gerund of shake it up.

Words near shaking it up in the dictionary

  1. shaking hands
  2. shaking hands and kissing babies
  3. shaking in one's boots
  4. shaking in one's shoes
  5. shaking it
  6. shaking it up
  7. shaking like a leaf
  8. shaking off
  9. shaking off the dust from one's feet
  10. shaking on it
  11. shaking one's ass

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