A throw back to the 1997 incident involving English Nanny Louise Woodward when she shook a baby violently to death, was charged with second degree murder, and later had the case appealed and reduced the sentence to manslaughter, causing her to serve less than 300 days in prison instead of life.

One is labeled a "British Nanny" when they commit a similar act to someone in a generally disadvantaged position.
Person A: "Tod got slapped around by Bill when he came out of Chess Club again yesterday."

Person B: "Yeah, he shook him around like a British Nanny!"
by slightlyclever December 3, 2007
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1. The down+B attack of Mario or Luigi in Super Smash Brothers

2. Fran Dresser
Fran Dresser, give him the British Nanny!
by Ryan November 14, 2003
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.(Shake it like a British Nanny) Phrase. 1) The act of shaking a small infant in order to make it stop crying. 2) To be violently shaken in order to be brought back into consciousness. 3) Pill free alternative to viagra. 4) The act of shaking the living crap out of something in a violent manner in order to obtain inner clarity. (See also Epileptic-Buddhist).
.Shake it like a British Nanny
1) If the baby don't stop cryin' I'm a shake it like a British nanny.
2) The whore won't wake up! Shake it like a British nanny.
3) If it don't get hard just Shake it like a British Nanny.
4) Like the 7 paths to clarity I look deep into my being to find... .errr..ug.. uh..ug.err.errr.errrr. errr.eeeer. ..uhhh....eech..ech ..ech...uggg ...gurgle, gurgle, gurgle.
by SirIsaacHillary September 8, 2005
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