- past tense and chiefly dialectal past participle of shake
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At the very least, his upstart challenger has the incumbent sounding a little shook.
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Roughly 200 groggy Clevelanders, most still a little shook up, slowly fill up the gate area to wait out this unscheduled detour.
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First Known Use: 1796
in the meaning defined at sense 1a
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- past tense of shake
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