shin bone

Questions about shin bone

What does shin bone mean?

shin bone means "a cut of meat from the lower part of the leg". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for shin bone?

Close synonyms include shin, tibia, shinbone, shin. 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 bone a common word?

shin bone is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.