Shin - definition, pronunciation, transcription

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Amer.  |ʃɪn|  American pronunciation of the word shin
Brit.  |ʃɪn|  British pronunciation of the word shin

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 (syn: shinbone, tibia)

verb

- climb awkwardly, as if by scrambling (syn: clamber, scramble, shinny, skin, sputter, struggle)

Extra examples

The children shin up like little monkeys.

Take hold of the rope at the top and then just shin down.

Morse knocked his shin against a suitcase standing just inside the door.

I barked my shin against the step.

Word forms

verb
I/you/we/they: shin
he/she/it: shins
present participle: shinning
past tense: shinned
past participle: shinned
noun
singular: shin
plural: shins
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