Sentence examples for shim sham from inspiring English sources
noun
A tap dance routine that originated in the United States in the 1920s.
With no smirking, she got this big, besuited man to do the shim sham.
Link Wray performs at the Shim Sham Club in New Orleans in 2002.
Indeed, he was still teaching the Shim Sham Shimmy this year.
This, with a bit of help from another partnership, the Whitman Sisters, led to Mr Reed's greatest legacy, the Shim Sham Shimmy.Readers of The Economist will know that there is some disagreement about the Shim Sham, from which Mr Reed developed the Shim Sham Shimmy.
This year, the lessons, and the bands, will address Lindy, shim sham, tango, salsa, salsa dura (serious salsa), the hustle, ballroom, swing, jitterbug, hand dancing, and collegiate shag.
Hers was the position of honor, right before everyone returned to the stage for the traditional "Shim Sham" and "B. S. Chorus" finale.
Then Mr. Slyde and Mr. Glover offered a dapper duet, and all the performers united in a jolly "Closing Shim-Sham" led by Ms. LeGon.
She comes off best thanks to innovative use of a steam-iron, but has to call on members of the Shim-Sham-Shimmy.
The Shim-Sham-Shimmy transvestite club of Wapping is back in business with this third book of Dreda Say Mitchell's series, though the East End is changing: art galleries are springing up in Bethnal Green.
Well into his 90s, it took no prompting for the white-haired, gentlemanly Ebsen to break into a "shim-sham-shimmy," a simple shuffle-tap dance followed by outstretched arms and a shimmy: the traditional hoofers' hello.
With his RumbaTap ensemble, including six tap dancers, a saxophone trio, marimba and vocalists, he has performed a literal translation of a Mongo Santamaria timbales solo, praised Santeria Orishas, and superimposed the bomba groove with the Shim-Sham, an old tap dance routine.
