Pronunciation
- IPA: /ʃɪn/
shin (plural shins)
- The front part of the leg below the knee; the front edge of the shin bone.
- Synonyms: tibia
- A fishplate for a railway.
- French: tibia, os long
- German: Schienbein, Tibia
- Italian: stinco, tibia
- Portuguese: canela
- Russian: го́лень
- Spanish: canilla, espinilla, tibia
shin (shins, present participle shinning; past and past participle shinned)
- (British, as "shin up") To climb 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 shin up a mast
- Synonyms: shinny (US)
- To strike with the shin.
- (US, slang) To run about borrowing money hastily and temporarily, as when trying to make a payment.
- Russian: кара́бкаться
shin (plural shins)
- The twenty-first letter of many Semitic alphabets/abjads (Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic and others).
- German: Schin
- Russian: шин
Shin
Proper noun
- A river in Scotland, in the Highlands
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