chin
IPA: tʃˈɪn
noun
- The bottom of a face, (specifically) the typically jutting jawline below the mouth.
- (slang, US) Talk.
- (slang, Britain) A lie, a falsehood.
- (slang, Britain) A person of the upper class.
- (boxing, uncountable) The ability to withstand being punched in the chin without being knocked out.
- (aviation) The lower part of the front of an aircraft, below the nose.
- The bottom part of a mobile phone, below the screen.
- (informal) A chinchilla.
- A hamlet in Alberta, Canada.
- A surname from Hakka.
- A tribe in Myanmar.
- A state of Myanmar
- Synonym of Zo: a language of Myanmar.
- (obsolete) Alternative form of China. [A nation or civilization occupying the country around the Yellow, Yangtze, and Pearl Rivers in East Asia, taken as a whole under its various dynasties.]
- (obsolete) Alternative form of Jin: an ancient Chinese state and various medieval Chinese dynasties. [A river (晉水) in Shanxi Province, China, emptying into the Fen River.]
verb
- (slang, dated, intransitive) To talk.
- (slang, dated, transitive) To talk to or with (someone).
- (reflexive, intransitive) To perform a chin-up (exercise in which one lifts one's own weight while hanging from a bar).
- (chiefly UK, transitive) To punch or hit (someone)'s chin (part of the body).
- (transitive) To put or hold (a musical instrument) up to one's chin.
- (transitive) To turn on or operate (a device) using one's chin; to select (a particular setting) using one's chin.
- (transitive) To put one's chin on (something).
- (transitive) To indicate or point toward (someone or something) with one's chin.
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Examples of "chin" in Sentences
- *grabs shamwow an wipes chinny chin chin* O yesh, wii wuddnt want soggy peetsa!
- His chin is almost recessing into his jaw and he has the trademark republican pig snout.
- Mbvoumin, 42, has a sharp chin, is clean-shaven and keeps his hair cropped close to his head.
- "My chin is numb right now," said Favre, who said he needed eight stitches to close the wound.
- I also sometimes had trouble believing in Naoki as so handsome, since his face can change between panels and his chin is incredibly sharp.
- The beard on his double chin is as white as snow, and when he laughs, his little round belly shakes like a bowlful of jelly - and that, as Ernest Berger sees it, is the problem.
- If the usual way a girl gets a man's beard "on" her chin is to be kissed by the mouth the beard surrounds and Viola wants that beard but wants it to go elsewhere on her person ...
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