shin

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

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

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

2. 2
   verb

   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.

   To shin up a mast.

3. 3
   verb

   To strike with the shin.

   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.

4. 4
   verb

   To run about borrowing money hastily and temporarily, as when trying to make a payment.

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

Common collocations

• shin bone Noun + noun

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.

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