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A person shrugging their shoulders to indicate a lack of knowledge about a particular topic, or a lack of care about the result of a situation.

Displays as raised shoulders, sometimes in conjunction with raised arms and flat hands. The shrug gesture in text (emoticon) form is known as the shruggie and typed as: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
You: Do you know whats on TV tonight?
Me: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ (shruggie)
shruggie by sleepwalker008 November 14, 2016
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Shruggie Waggie 

A bit like "i don't know my big dicked friend" but more passive
Friend 1: Hey do you know where my keys are?
Friend 2: Ugh, Shruggie Waggie man.
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shvuggie 

Derogatory term for African American. New York Italian/Jewish
derivation. See "Moolie"
The cops arrested a giant shvuggie in front of my house.
shvuggie by Chopper818 May 20, 2008

shoulder shruggin 

dancin it up; laughing excessively; or partying all night. Also called shoulder shrugs or chasin waterfalls.
My homies and I were at a party straight shoulder shruggin

Shauggie Style 

Performing sexual acts with a straight, open-mouthed face, usually becuase your cat died a year before
Guy 1: Why did you do that girl Shauggie Style
Shaugger: My cat died a year ago
Shauggie Style by Shauggmaster January 9, 2010

Shruggin 

A form of laughter where you're laughing without a sound. The shoulders are shruggin'.
We were shruggin' at the library when someone told us a funny joke. We were shruggin' so bad, we couldn't breathe!
Shruggin by Pisces10 July 26, 2009

Atlas Shrugged

Considered by many to be Ayn Rand's greatest work, Atlas Shrugged is a long, pro-capitalist novel in which Ayn Rand sought to portray the ideal man and his effect on society.
"If you saw Atlas, the giant who holds the world on his shoulders, if you saw that he stood, blood running down his chest, his knees buckling, his arms trembling but still trying to hold the world aloft with the last of his strength, and the greater the effort the heavier the world bore down upon his shoulders—what would you tell him to do?"

"I…don’t know. What…could he do? What would you tell him?"

"To shrug."
Atlas Shrugged by 142857 March 26, 2005
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