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shin

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++朗文当代英语 5++LDOCE 5++朗文 5++
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shin1 /ʃɪn/ noun [countable]  HBHthe front part of your leg between your knee and your foot (外)胫,胫部
Examples from the Corpus
shinThen a shin guard is pulled over the whole thing.Her ankles and shins were scratched and bloodied, her stockings shredded by the trackside weeds and nettles.A shower of pebbles fell short of her shin.It snapped back on its hinges and banged his left shin.When the man refused orders to halt and fled on foot, he was shot in the left shin, officers said.Tucker spiked Renteria on the left shin.Sharp little incisors showed when he smiled, matching, in dainty repulsiveness, his naked shins.Newcastle ace Dyer aggravated a long-standing shin problem in Saturday's 1-0 home defeat to Manchester City.
shin2 verb (shinned, shinning) [intransitive] British English  shin up/down CLIMBto climb quickly up or down a tree, pole etc by using your hands and legs 快速地爬上/爬下 SYN American English shinny He shinned up a tree. 他噌的一下爬到了一棵树上。→ See Verb table
Examples from the Corpus
shinNothing as cheap as an open window or shinning down a drainpipe at midnight or down paying a suitcase full of bricks.Dave shinned up a handy conifer.He nodded encouragement to his fellows, and they shinned up after him and dropped down into the stockade.But can not phone him from Twills as Mr Twill would insist on shinning up drainpipe himself and break femur.The animal was so tame that it shinned up his leg and dived into a deep pocket.Maintenance men could tell whether a pole - wooden or concrete - is dangerously cracked before shinning up it.
Origin shin Old English scinu
between your part the Corpus of leg front


shin
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shin1 /ʃɪn/ noun [countable]
 Language: Old English
 Origin: scinu
the front part of your leg between your knee and your foot

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shin2 verb (past tense and past participle shinned, present participle shinning) [intransitive] British English
shin up/down to climb quickly up or down a tree, pole etc by using your hands and legs
   SYN  shinny American English:
    He shinned up a tree.


shinBrE /ʃɪn/ 🔊NAmE /ʃɪn/ 🔊 noun
the front part of the leg below the knee 胫;胫部
shinBrE /ʃɪn/ 🔊NAmE /ʃɪn/ 🔊 verbpresent simple - I / you / we / they shin BrE /ʃɪn/ 🔊 NAmE /ʃɪn/ 🔊present simple - he / she / it shins BrE /ʃɪnz/ 🔊 NAmE /ʃɪnz/ 🔊past simple shinned BrE /ʃɪnd/ 🔊 NAmE /ʃɪnd/ 🔊past participle shinned BrE /ʃɪnd/ 🔊 NAmE /ʃɪnd/ 🔊 -ing form shinning BrE /ˈʃɪnɪŋ/ 🔊 NAmE /ˈʃɪnɪŋ/ 🔊 ˈshin/ˈshinny up/down sth(informal) to climb up or down sth quickly, using your hands and legs He shinned down the drainpipe and ran off. 他顺着排水管爬下去跑了。🔊🔊