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shook-up

shook-up is the alternative form of shook up.

Meaning of shook up

Adjective

shook up (comparative more shook up, superlative most shook up)

  1. (slang) Shaken; emotionally disturbed or agitated.
    • My hands are shaky and my knees are weak / I can't seem to stand on my own two feet / Who do you thank when you have such luck? / I'm in love / I'm all shook up1957, Otis Blackwell, All Shook Up (song performed by Elvis Presley)

Forms of shook-up

comparativemore shook-up
superlativemost shook-up

Questions about shook-up

What is shook-up the alternative form of?
Shook-up is the alternative form of shook up.

Words near shook-up in the dictionary

  1. shook the dust from one's sandals
  2. shook the pagoda tree
  3. shook the plum tree
  4. shook together
  5. shook up
  6. shook-up
  7. shooke
  8. shooked
  9. shooken
  10. shookest
  11. shooketh

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Adapted from Wiktionary: shook-up (page history and authors); shook up (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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