shinnoun
uk/ʃɪn/us/ʃɪn/[ C ] the front part of your leg between your knee and your foot:
She has a nasty bruise on her shin.
[ C or U ] a joint (= large piece) of meat from the lower leg of a cow:
a shin of beef
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The leg
- Achilles tendon
- appendage
- appendicular
- crural
- cruris
- gastrocnemius
- gemellus
- hamstring
- haunch
- leggy
- peroneal
- peroneus
- pes anserinus
- piriformis
- popliteal
- subsartorial
- subtalar
- surae
- sural
- talocalcaneal
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Cuts of meat
shinverb [ I usually + adv/prep ]
uk/ʃɪn/us/ʃɪn/-nn- US also shinnyto climb something such as a tree, using your hands and legs to move along quickly:
Several of us shinned up lampposts so that we could see over the crowd.
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Moving upwards
- ascend
- ascent
- be on an upward/downward trajectory idiom
- bristle
- clamber
- climb
- come
- come up
- heave
- hoick
- levitate
- mount
- pull
- rear
- rise
- scale
- scramble
- shinny
- soar
- take off
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