Shaka

[Tina]

Hawaiian hand gesture. It has many meanings. Originally it means to hang loose, or to chill and be laid back. It can be used as a positive reinforcement. If somebody did something good, cool, or righteous; You can give them a shaka as a sign of approval or praise. It can also be used as a welcome/goodbye sign. Most people would give the shaka as a sign of wassup or hello, use it as a way of saying goodbye, and even use it as a thank you.

To make a shaka:

1. make a fist (not a tight fist)
2. extend both your pinky and your thumb.
3. lightly shake your hand (too fast makes you like retarded or like a tourist, and too slow make you look stupid.)
4. If you dont want to do the shake, you are also able to do the Im tuff motion. In a downward motion, move your hand. Giving a kind of downward wrist flick at the end. It gives you a more im bad look. Its mainly used by old school Local boyz.

[Raeanne Dimick]

Originated in Hawaii. Old story goes:
Old man dynamites reef for fish, heʻs good at it and does it all the time.One day blows up hand and is left with 2 fingers thumb and pinky. Locals would see him around and wave at him, he would wave back but only with thumb and pinky. Pretty soon locals would wave back in same way. Its called shaka because he always claimed he didnʻt feel anything when it first happened, he claimed he was shocked at the fact that he actually blew his hand up after all these years.Thus this hawaii tradition has always meant no worry, everything here is and will always be good no matter what happens. Dynamite is no longer allowed. this happened before hawaii was a state of USA. Around turn of century or plantation days. Always used as a greeting or gesture, usually conveying tones of love, family, friend, aloha, togetherness, rightousness, thankful, greatful, blessed, supreme karma. Given freely without anything expected in return, and always from the heart.

[Mark Zuckerberg]

Burrito joint in Jersey

[Mark Zuckerberg]

A Hawaiian greeting with thumb out, and pinky finger, as you shake it. Shows other people that you have been to, grew up, or know about Hawaii and how cool it is.

[Becky]

Hawaiian Slang for a hand gesture.
Orgin: 60s Hawaii
its a hand gesture and its called shaka. and it means your cool!

[Jessica]

the essence of excellent, good, yummy, attractive, exciting.

antonym: shoko

abbreviation for SHAKALAKA

usually used in a sentence that includes baybay

[Couch Potatoe]

adj. feminine but not homosexual, more weird homosexual

[Couch Potatoe]

Shaka (sometimes spelled Tshaka, Tchaka or Chaka; ca. 1787 – ca. 22 September 1828) is widely credited with transforming the Zulu tribe from a small clan into the beginnings of a nation that held sway over that portion of Southern Africa between the Phongolo and Mzimkhulu rivers. His military prowess and destructiveness have been widely credited. One Encyclopaedia Britannica article (Macropaedia Article Shaka 1974 ed) asserts that he was something of a military genius for his reforms and innovations. Other writers take a more limited view. Nevertheless, his statesmanship and vigour in assimilating some neighbours and ruling by proxy through others marks him as one of the greatest Zulu chieftains.

[Tanya Shivari]

the word [joke] in [Turkish].