shrug

intransitive verb

To raise (the shoulders), especially as a gesture of doubt, disdain, or indifference.

intransitive verb

To raise the shoulders, especially as a gesture of doubt, disdain, or indifference.

noun

An expressive gesture of raising the shoulders.

noun

A very short woman’s jacket or sweater, having long or short sleeves and usually worn open down the front.

phrasal verb

To minimize the importance of.

phrasal verb

To get rid of.

phrasal verb

To wriggle out of (clothing).

To shrink or shiver with or as with cold; draw up the limbs in a nervous shiver.

To raise or draw up and contract the shoulders with a sudden, nervous movement: an expression usually of doubt, indifference, discontent, dislike, contempt, etc.

Reflexively, to draw up the shoulders of in a shrug.