shin
shin is a 4-letter English word with 10 senses as noun, intransitive verb, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The front part of the leg below the knee; the front edge of the shin bone; the lower part of the leg; the shank. Face value is 7 in Scrabble and 7 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
Definitions
- noun. The front part of the leg below the knee; the front edge of the shin bone; the lower part of the leg; the shank.
- noun. A fish plate for rails.
- intransitive verb. 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; -- used with up; as, to shin up a mast.
- intransitive verb. To run about borrowing money hastily and temporarily, as for the payment of one's notes at the bank.
- transitive verb. To climb (a pole, etc.) by shinning up.
- noun. the front part of the human leg between the knee and the ankle
- noun. the inner and thicker of the two bones of the human leg between the knee and ankle
- noun. the 22nd letter of the Hebrew alphabet
- noun. a cut of meat from the lower part of the leg
- verb. climb awkwardly, as if by scrambling
Synonyms
shinbone, tibia, clamber, scramble, shinny, skin, sputter, struggle
Anagrams
Other playable words that use exactly the letters in shin:
Common word forms
shins, shined, shiner, shines, shining, shinned, shinner, shinning
Words from these letters
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