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shins

shins is the plural of shin.

shins is the third-person singular simple present indicative of shin.

Meaning of shin

Noun (1)

shin (plural shins)

  1. The front part of the leg below the knee; the front edge of the shin bone: Shinbone on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
    • Soccer players have to wear protective gear so they don't injure their shins.
    Synonyms:
    tibia
  2. A fishplate for a railway

Noun (2)

shin (plural shins)

  1. The twenty-first letter of many Semitic alphabets/abjads (Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic and others): Shin (letter) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

See all 8 meanings of shin

Proper noun capitalized: Shins

Shins

  1. (plural) plural of Shin

Phrases with shins

Questions about shins

What is shins the plural of?
Shins is the plural of shin.
What part of speech is shins?
Shins is a proper noun.

Words near shins in the dictionary

  1. shinplates
  2. shinrimei
  3. shinrimei radish
  4. shinrimei radishes
  5. shinrinyoku
  6. shins
  7. shins out
  8. Shinsky
  9. Shinskys
  10. shinsplint
  11. shinsplints

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Adapted from Wiktionary: shins (page history and authors); Shins (page history and authors); shin (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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