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- verb US Present participle of
swivel .
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Examples
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More fire, more hip-swiveling and this time she brought Drake along.
Live blogging from the 53rd Annual Grammy Awards Click Track 2011
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The iPad wasn't the first tablet to hit the market – Lenovo and others have long offered laptops with swiveling screens that can also function as tablets, for example.
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In the best of all possible worlds, my bedroom would look like the deck of a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier — with a swiveling Barcalounger, walls of monitors, streaming tracking poll data, and a loudspeaker over which I could communicate with my field operatives.
Politicos on the Home Front Ralph Gardner Jr. 2010
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Neither does the potentially glorious Elvis-as-Pharaoh shtick, a "Joseph" centerpiece that here finds Russell Sunday inexplicably leering like Meat Loaf rather than swiveling like the King.
Nelson Pressley reviews Olney's 'Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat' 2011
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"I'd like to disagree with Bob Diamond," she said, swiveling in her chair to face the CEO.
Europe Summit to Focus on Funds Stephen Fidler 2011
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Up in that swiveling leather club seat of that private jet.
Will Durst: Super Duper Congress Will Durst 2011
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Up in that swiveling leather club seat of that private jet.
Will Durst: Super Duper Congress Will Durst 2011
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Not surprisingly, the steps look to be close cousins of those seen in Afro-Caribbean and African dance - fast-swiveling hips, pitter-pattering feet and hard-snapping shoulders.
Performing arts reviews Post 2011
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Up in that swiveling leather club seat of that private jet.
Will Durst: Super Duper Congress Will Durst 2011
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It also features Hilty, in the eventually fully-staged number, looking like both Marilyn swiveling through "Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend" in the Gentlemen Prefer Blondes feature and Gwen Verdon chirping "Whatever Lola Wants" in Damn Yankees, big and small screens.
David Finkle: First Nighter: NBC's Smash Is No Such Thing, Leading-Lady Katharine McPhee Is David Finkle 2012
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