throw some shapes

present singular third person throws some shapes · participle present throwing some shapes · participle past threw some shapes · past threw some shapes

1. slangTo dance.

   So put on your favourite tunes and throw some shapes.

   2014, Kate Knighton, Susan Meredith, Christyan Fox, Why should I bother to keep fit?: Why Should I?, →ISBN

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   By this time [he] has his shades on permanently, and sure enough he is soon up out of his seat to go and throw some shapes with the blonde woman at the far side.

   2016, Alasdair J.H. Jones, On South Bank: The Production of Public Space, →ISBN

   Still not ready for bed? Then head to one of the nearby clubs and throw some shapes.

   2016, David Eimer, Lonely Planet Pocket Beijing, →ISBN

2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see throw, some, shapes.

   Kibria's paintings first throw some shapes into a geometric prominence, then quickly lead the viewer throught a complex of...

   1993, Vince Pitelka, 9 Modern Artists, Bangladesh, page 30

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   Granted, throwing some shapes on a page is pretty quick, but for your students to turn in a clean-looking diagram, they will have to put forth some effort.

   2001, Nathan Maxwell, MCSE instructor resource manual (70-220)

   It is possible to throw some shapes so that they have a perfectly acceptable base straight off the wheel, with very little finish work.

   2001, Clay: A Studio Handbook, page 77

   Not that Block ignored the Hell Gate islands: his map throws some shapes into the pit of water between the Bronx and Long Island, below the Archipelagus, but it was years later, in 1639, that the so-called Manatus map (“Manhattan, located on the North River") depicted these islands accurately in size and shape and located them precisely in the places we know them to be.

   2018, Michael Nichols, Hell Gate: A Nexus of New York City s East River, page 47