shin

Plural: shins

Noun

• the front part of the human leg between the knee and the ankle
• a cut of meat from the lower part of the leg
• the 22nd letter of the Hebrew alphabet
• the inner and thicker of the two bones of the human leg between the knee and ankle
• The front part of the leg below the knee; the front edge of the shin bone: Shinbone on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• A fishplate for a railway
• The twenty-first letter of many Semitic alphabets/abjads (Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic and others): Shin (letter) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Verb

Verb Forms: shinned, shinning, shins

• To climb using hands and legs alternately, gripping tightly.
• climb awkwardly, as if by scrambling
• 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.
• To strike with the shin.
• To run about borrowing money hastily and temporarily, as when trying to make a payment.

Examples

• He had to shin up the dictionary pages to find that obscure, high-scoring word.
• Soccer players have to wear protective gear so they don't injure their shins.
• to shin up a mast

Synonyms

clamber, scramble, shin bone, shinbone, shinny, skin, sputter, struggle, tibia

Related Words

shin hanga, shinbone

Anagrams of shin