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What does headshake mean?

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Noun
  1. A shake of the head.
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Those who are charged with writing the text are often doing a headshake or eye roll at the fact that they've had to wait for that.
The headshake was fiercer this time and there were tears in his eyes.
Humming in the throat, headshake, doglike, eager eyes.
For nuance, the last line I prefer is from Henry James's Wings of a Dove: But she turned to the door, and her headshake was now the end.
A tricky win against Nedovyesov early in the second set sparked a rare smile, and a bemused headshake at the large and noisy cluster of Kazakhstan supporters followed soon after.
India is known its head wobble or headshake, a gesture that ambiguously says neither yes nor no, but is often a polite way of avoiding overt refusal.

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