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Shrug Pronunciation

Pronounce Shrug as S HH R UW G.

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    Shrug phonetic transcription:

    When you start learning English, it's important to become familiar with the typical sounds of the language. The best way to do this is by studying phonetics. Below is the UK transcription for the word 'shrug'. Get the right phonetic representation for any word using our free Phonetic Transcription Tool.

    • Traditional IPA representation of shrug: /shruɡ/
    • Modern IPA representation of shrug: /shrʊɡ/

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    List of meaning for shrug

    to show indifference or disregard, sometimes by raising and contracting the shoulders

    shrug(verb)

    a gesture involving the shoulders

    shrug(verb)

    raise one's shoulders to indicate indifference or resignation

    to dismiss as of little importance

    an administration that was willing to shrug off the problem

    to rid oneself of (a garment)

    she shrugged off her coat and hung it up neatly

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    shrug in sentence

    1. The battered wife tried to shrug her husband’s degrading comments off as “just words” although they made her feel terrible.

    2. Company officials may shrug off two quarter losses, but three in a row is a little disheartening.

    3. The man’s tendency to shrug off his flu symptoms until it was too late landed him in the hospital over the weekend.

    4. The victim’s parents were highly disappointed that the detectives seemed to shrug off their son’s death as an accident.

    5. The shrug is a gesture that usually means a person does not know or does not care.

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    Quotes and sayings containing the term shrug

    For the last few years I have said clearly if we didn't get reform we should be prepared to walk away. I think we now have a golden opportunity to shrug off a regulatory legislative burden that is profoundly undemocratic, we have got a once in a lifetime opportunity, which will not come again, to strike a new series of relationships, free trade deals with the growth economies around the world, whilst maintaining ... our free trade advantages with the European Union.

    – Boris Johnson

    This is a shrug of the shoulders.

    – Larry Sabato

    As for these eternal squabbles that students from Crimea are taking university places from Russians, I can say only that it's completely absurd, and let me say that they have only allocated budgeted places for Crimean students to some universities and in some specialisms, which are often not the best. In some universities, questions about quotas are met with a shrug and a puzzled look.

    – Alexandra Kartokhina

    My reaction to it is actually disturbing to me, which is kind of,' Eh, there he goes again.' I thought I was' Lyin' James Comey' now I'm' Leakin' James Comey'. But I kind of shrug and sometimes smile and laugh about it and then I have a secondary reaction, which is to be horrified at my own numb reaction, we have to remind ourselves the President of the United States of America is publicly announcing that people are committing crimes, that they should be in jail.

    – James Comey

    You walk up and down this street and ask every person whether they cared or worried about Russia and connections to Dana Rohrabacher, they'd shrug their shoulders.

    – The Democrats

    I kind of shrug and sometimes smile and laugh about it and then I have a secondary reaction, which is to be horrified at my own numb reaction, right ? we have to remind ourselves the President of the United States of America is publicly announcing that people are committing crimes, that they should be in jail.

    – James Comey

    I don't care how much money it is, there isn't enough money in the world to purchase back our credibility on human rights. ... Just because a country we're working with did it doesn't mean the US can just shrug its shoulders and say nothing happened here.

    – Marco Rubio

    For even those folks that have been doubters about it, this has to pull them to the other side in terms of that conversation, one number in and of itself will not dictate if a hike happens or not, but a number like this is hard to shrug off.

    – Tom Porcelli

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