When someone says or does something that is usually unacceptable and makes people uncomfortable in order to make people talk about something
1.) Sarah: Are we still not gonna talk about uncle Charlie’s obsession with sitting at the kids table.

Aunt Gene: omg she’s shaking the table

2.) Publishing an article about racism in a town that has racial issues that no one generally talks about.
by SaidLilBitch October 9, 2017
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The act of causing conversation or starting drama.
Kira told everyone that Derek and Raya have been secretly dating! She loves to shake the table!
by septembereighth September 22, 2018
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