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From Middle English schyne, from Old English scinu, from Proto-West Germanic *skinu, from Proto-Germanic *skinō. Cognate with West Frisian skine, Dutch scheen, German Schiene. Not related to skin.

shin (plural shins)

  1. The front part of the leg below the knee; the front edge of the shin bone: Shinbone on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
    Synonym: tibia

    Soccer players have to wear protective gear so they don't injure their shins.

  2. A fishplate for a railway[1]

front part of the leg below the knee

shin (third-person singular simple present shins, present participle shinning, simple past and past participle shinned)

  1. 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.
    Synonym: shinny (US)

    to shin up a mast

    • 1936, Norman Lindsay, The Flyaway Highway, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 33:

      "The minute the door is shut he shins down a water-pipe, hops on his motor-cycle, and is off at full speed."

  2. To strike with the shin.

    • 2011 January 5, Mark Ashenden, “Wolverhampton 1 - 0 Chelsea”, in BBC‎[1]:

      The warning signs had been there as Peter Cech had already had to palm away a stinging shot from Ronald Zubar but immediately afterwards the Blues goalkeeper could only watch in horror as defender Boswinga shinned the ball into his own net from Hunt's corner.

  3. (US, slang) To run about borrowing money hastily and temporarily, as when trying to make a payment.

    • 1845 December 13, New York Commercial Advertiser:

      The Senator was shinning around, to get gold for the rascally bank-rags which he was obliged to take.

shin (plural shins)

  1. The twenty-first letter of many Semitic alphabets/abjads (Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic and others): Shin (letter) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Semitic letter

  1. ^ Edward H[enry] Knight (1877) “Shin”, in Knight’s American Mechanical Dictionary. […], volumes III (REA–ZYM), New York, N.Y.: Hurd and Houghton […], →OCLC..

shin

  1. H-system spelling of ŝin

From Arabic شِين (šīn).

  • IPA(key): /ʃín/
    • (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA(key): [ʃɪ́ŋ]

shin f

  1. shin (letter of the Arabic alphabet)

shin

  1. Lenited form of sin.

shin

  1. Rōmaji transcription of しん

shin

  1. spear
  2. war
  • Goldberg, Justin, Asadik, Habte, Bekama, Jiregna, Mengistu, Mulat (2016) Gwama – English Dictionary‎[2], SIL International
shin / shyin

Inherited from French chien (“dog”).

shin

  1. (a) dog

From Old Irish sinni.

shin (emphatic shinyn)

  1. (personal pronoun) we, us

shin

  1. (colloquial) Lenited form of sin.

Borrowed from Arabic شِين (šīn).

shin (plural shinlar)

  1. the Arabic letter ش