shook

plural shooks

1. A set of pieces for making a cask or box, usually wood.
2. The parts of a piece of house furniture, as a bedstead, packed together.

present singular third person shooks · participle present shooking · participle past shooked · past shooked

1. To pack (staves, etc.) in a shook.

1. pastsimple past of shake.
2. informalparticiplepastpast participle of shake

   Although she could have just held it out and it would have shook by itself. His voice was having the same effect on her that the lead guitar on Chris Isaak's Wicked Game had.

   2010 April 29, “'Now that I'm married...'”, in A Summer Fling, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 211

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   Rich. Alack, why am I ſent for to a King, Before I haue ſhooke off the Regall thoughts / Wherewith I reign'd? I hardly yet haue learn'd / To inſinuate,flatter,bowe,and bend my Knee.

   1595 December 9 (first known performance), William Shakespeare, “The Life and Death of King Richard the Second”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i], page 39

   Pray, assure the empress, from me, that, notwithstanding the councils which have shook the throne of her father and mother, I shall remain here, ready to save the sacred persons of the king and queen, and of her brothers and sisters ;[…]

   1806, The Life of the Right Honourable Horatio Lord Viscount Nelson […] , volume 1, Stanhope and Tilling, page 377

comparative more shook · superlative most shook

1. slangShaken up; rattled; shocked or surprised.

   Upon hearing this I am really feeling the pressure. I am shook.

   2015, Gary L. Heyward, Corruption Officer: From Jail Guard to Perpetrator Inside Rikers Island, page 239

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   Immediately, his face flushed: "How could Katy do that to Britney? I'm SHOOK."

   2017 March 21, Danny Madion, “Pop music, sexuality and the gay duckling”, in The Michigan Daily, University of Michigan, page 5

   He wrote this long ass thing about how we're the next up and coming thing! I'm shook, I'm like 'What the hell?" and all the emails started coming in—Interscope, Capitol, Universal, it was this whole spiral.

   2018, Eddington Again, quoted in Senay Kenfe, "Eddington Again", L. A. Record, Summer 2018, page 35

2. slangEmotionally upset or disturbed; scared.

   Crystal was shook when Mr. Wu discovered she was shopping online for panties and bras to pass the time in class.

1. A surname.