Noun: shakes
| Singular | shakes |
| Plural | the shakes |
Sample Sentences
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If I don't get a drink soon, I'll get the shakes.
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[Recovering video game addicts] also have sleep disorders, the shakes and numbness in their hands. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/07/05/china_net_addicts/
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When researchers either stopped the diet or administered an opioid blocker, the rats showed signs common to drug withdrawal, such as teeth-chattering and the shakes. http://apu.sfn.org/index.cfm?pagename=brainBriefings_sugarAddiction
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"I remember having the shakes sometimes and thinking 'why am I doing this?', and then remembering the vision. Very few of us were extroverts and happy to go on stage. [2022 January 12, Adeline Ginn talks to Stefanie Foster, “A fantastic pool of female talent”, in RAIL, number 948, page 33:]
Nouns inflected like shakes
Welsh Marches,
shakes,
three Fs,
three Rs,
Lionesses,
Leonardeschi,
Olympic Rings,
old days,
Edoni,
llama's pajamas,
stubborns,
dwindles,
hard yards,
antelope's cantaloupes,
three marks of existence,
dismals,
Seven Seas,
Chosen People,
Ready Reckoners,
temperates, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology