shin
IPA: ʃˈɪn
noun
- 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
- A river in Scotland, in the Highlands
verb
- (Britain, 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 strike with the shin.
- (US, slang) To run about borrowing money hastily and temporarily, as when trying to make a payment.
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Examples of "shin" in Sentences
- Shin guards also protect the kneecap.
- He is trying to stretch the shins regularly.
- The hips are bent with the shins on the floor.
- Shin is a silent, seemingly unsociable person.
- The key to this is to stretch the shins regularly.
- Loosening the shoes will prevent the pain in the shins.
- The calf is the back portion and the shin is the front.
- Plus, the turning point was at the foot, breaking the shin.
- The drum is connected to the thigh and the shoe to the shin.
- The shin is the front portion of the lower leg in vertebrates.
- Gaudio finished the match with blood trickling down his right shin from a final-set tumble.
- Ironically, it is the Japanese phrase shin do fu ji that rings truest for me: human and soil are not two.
- Sheeny should not be traced to German shin, a cant word for "miser; base fellow; cheat" (an etymology proposed by a distinguished scholar).
- The name is derived from the Gaelic and refers to the town of Cullen in Moray and the word for shin or shank which developed the secondary meaning of soup.
- For this stupidity I received a couple of stitches on my left knee, my shin is a giant scab, and my right thigh looks as if someone took a baseball bat to it.
- A scar on my shin is from when I pedaled without holding the handlebars and I fell off my red Schwinn with the fat tires, the little straw basket, and the tinkly bell.
- Shirogane convinces him that the balance between the human world and the shadow world has been distorted and that Akira must become a "shin" - a creature of the shadow world - in order to help restore the balance.
- New product is what we call shin kicking, it gets the kids to say to mom "I have to get into Build-A-Bear" and then we need something for mom, whether that's a strong promotion, whether that's a bundling opportunity, whether it's some kind of limited edition.