Shin

Quick meaning: Shin is a noun meaning The front part of the leg below the knee; the front edge of the shin bone: Shinbone on Wikipedia.Wikipedia.

Meaning

The front part of the leg below the knee; the front edge of the shin bone: Shinbone on Wikipedia.Wikipedia.

More Meanings

1. A fishplate for a railway
2. To strike with the shin.
3. (US, slang) To run about borrowing money hastily and temporarily, as when trying to make a payment.
4. To climb up or lower oneself down a mast, tree, rope, or the like, by embracing it alternately with the arms and legs, without help of steps, spurs, or the like.
5. The twenty-first letter of many Semitic alphabets/abjads (Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic and others): Shin (letter) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Example Sentences

to shin up a mast

Soccer players have to wear protective gear so they don't injure their shins.

The Senator was shinning around, to get gold for the rascally bank-rags which he was obliged to take.

"The minute the door is shut he shins down a water-pipe, hops on his motor-cycle, and is off at full speed."

Word Forms

• shins
• shinning
• shinned

Synonyms for shin

Depending on context, synonyms include tibia, shinny, scramble, clamber, struggle, sputter.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include shinbone, tibia, skin, sputter, scramble, struggle.

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