Usually means: Person confined indoors by circumstances.
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We found 22 dictionaries that define the word shut-in:

General (16 matching dictionaries)
  1. shut-in: Merriam-Webster
  2. shut-in: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. shut-in: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. shut-in, shut-in: Collins English Dictionary
  5. shut-in: Vocabulary.com
  6. Shut-in, shut-in: Wordnik
  7. shut-in: Wiktionary
  8. shut-in: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. shut-in: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. shut-in: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. shut-in: Dictionary.com
  12. Shut-in: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. shut-in: Rhymezone
  14. shut-in: FreeDictionary.org
  15. shut-in: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. shut-in: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. shut-in: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. shut-in: Encyclopedia

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

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. shut-in: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See shut-ins as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (shut-in)

adjective:  Confined to a location, as by infirmity or illness.
noun:  A person confined to a location, as by illness or infirmity.
noun:  A narrow river gorge confined by resistant rock layers; a type of rock formation in which a stream is confined to a narrow bed of resistant stone.

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