shin

1. 1.

   climb awkwardly, as if by scrambling

   Synonymsclamberscrambleshinnyskinstrugglesputter

   Broaderclimb

Other forms of shin

plural

shins·

past tense or participle

shinned

present participle

shinning

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about shin

What does shin mean?

shin means "the front part of the human leg between the knee and the ankle". That is the primary sense; the word has 5 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in shin?

shin has 1 syllable: shin. In IPA it is /ˈʃɪn/.

What is another word for shin?

Close synonyms include shin bone, tibia, shinbone, shin bone, clamber. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is shin a common word?

shin is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.