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What (who) is gyrate - definition
gyrate
(gyrates, gyrating, gyrated)
1.
If you gyrate, you dance or move your body quickly with circular movements.
The woman began to gyrate to the music.
...a room stuffed full of gasping, gyrating bodies.
VERB: V, V-ing
• gyration (gyrations)
Prince continued his enthusiastic gyrations on stage.
N-COUNT: usu pl
2.
To gyrate means to turn round and round in a circle, usually very fast.
The aeroplane was gyrating about the sky in a most unpleasant fashion.
VERB: V prep, also V
3.
If things such as prices or currencies gyrate, they move up and down in a rapid and uncontrolled way. (JOURNALISM)
Interest rates began to gyrate up towards 20 per cent in 1980 and then down and up again.
VERB: V adv/prep, also V
• gyration
...the gyrations of the currency markets.
N-COUNT: usu pl, with supp
gyrate
v. n.
Rotate, revolve, whirl, spin, turn round, wheel round, move in a circle.
gyrate
¦ verb move in a circle or spiral.
?dance by gyrating the hips suggestively.
Derivatives
gyration noun
gyrator noun
Origin
C19 (earlier (C17) as gyration): from L. gyrat-, gyrare 'revolve', from Gk guros 'a ring'.
Examples of use of gyrate
1. Dancers gyrate, making tinny sounds by clapping unscrewed scissors.
2. Those incidents, which caused stocks to gyrate, was Bernanke‘s first communications stumble, Fed watchers said.
3. Vishal–Shekhar who had made Abhishek gyrate his hips in Dus Bahane are composing this ‘Hinglish’ number.
4. Thin columns of decorated scaffolding support the pedestals, which shake wildly as dancers gyrate to thundering drums.
5. Some of the men walking the line call out to passing women, "Hey, baby." A few picketers gyrate and dance while chanting: "What do we want?