shift v OED ~ v 6,12; EDD 2, 1.
1 To change one's clothing, boots, etc.
1964 Can Journ Ling x, 42 Like Cloten they still shift clothes. T 84-64 I'm up there now—this is Saturday night, an' I was after shiftin', an' I had a hell of a job to get my clothes. T 25-3-66 Dress up in oil clothes or somethin' like that, an' shift your boots. T 398-67 He hauled his clothes in an' got shift an' dried. P 148-74 [The hunting was so wet] I had to shift my tack. 1975 BUTLER 43 I empt out me rubbers, wrung out me socks—soakin'wet. Anyway, about twelve o'clock that night it moderated and we went aboard again. I never took off no clothes, never shifted.
2 To move one's residence from one place to another.
C 66-25 We shift down here, we lived down here alone, not one other soul in the place. C 71-90 She was born the year Uncle George shifted to Fogo. 1976 MATrHEWS 113 [He] was going all over saying this one wants to shift, that one wants to shift. All the time it was lies.
