Usually means: Front part of lower leg.
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We found 37 dictionaries that define the word shin:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. shin: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. Shin, shin: Merriam-Webster
  3. shin: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. shin, shin: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. shin: Collins English Dictionary
  6. shin: Vocabulary.com
  7. Shin, shin: Wordnik
  8. shin: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. Shin, shin: Wiktionary
  10. shin: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. shin: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. shin: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. shin: Dictionary.com
  14. shin: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. shin: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Shin (Fist of the North Star), Shin (Korean name), Shin (Korean surname), Shin (band), Shin (given name), Shin (letter), Shin (singer), Shin, The Shin: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Shin: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. shin: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. shin: Rhymezone
  20. shin: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. shin: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. shin: FreeDictionary.org
  23. shin: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. shin: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. shin: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. shin: Encyclopedia

Medicine (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. shin: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Shin: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  4. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  5. shin: Medical dictionary
  6. Shin: Drug Medical Dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. SHIN: Acronym Finder

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. shin, shin, shin, shin, shin: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. BBC Food Glossary (No longer online)

(Note: See shining as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  The front part of the leg below the knee; the front edge of the shin bone: Shinbone on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
noun:  A fishplate for a railway
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.
verb:  To strike with the shin.
verb:  (US, slang) To run about borrowing money hastily and temporarily, as when trying to make a payment.
noun:  The twenty-first letter of many Semitic alphabets/abjads (Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic and others): Shin (letter) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
noun:  A river in Scotland, in the Highlands

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