Usually means: Front part of lower legs.
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General (11 matching dictionaries)
  1. shins: Merriam-Webster
  2. shins: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. shins: Collins English Dictionary
  4. shins: Vocabulary.com
  5. Shin's, Shins, shins: Wordnik
  6. shins: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. shins: Wiktionary
  8. shins: Dictionary.com
  9. shins: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  10. Shins, The Shins (band), The Shins, The shins: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. shins: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. Technical Glossary of Theatre Terms (No longer online)

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  1. shins: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. shins: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. shins: Medical dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. shins: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Shins: Sports Definitions

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Shin)

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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