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perfect shinner

perfect shinner

9.9
A skateboarding trick where the board lands on the rider's shin hard
  • noun
  • Jargon
translation icon : shinner perfecto
  • After practicing for hours, she finally nailed a perfect shinner that impressed everyone.

Examples

  • Despite the pain, he laughed after landing a perfect shinner during his run.

  • He just landed a perfect shinner!

  • The video showed a skater attempting a trick but ending up with a perfect shinner instead.

  • Did you see that perfect shinner he did?

  • After practicing for hours, she finally nailed a perfect shinner that impressed everyone.

  • Despite the pain, he laughed after landing a perfect shinner during his run.

  • The video showed a skater attempting a trick but ending up with a perfect shinner instead.

Surface Forms

perfect shinner singular
perfect shinners plural

Morphology

perfect + shinner

The adjective 'perfect' is fully transparent, but 'shinner' is a rare/slang form not found in the dictionary. However, its structure suggests derivation from 'shin' + agent/instrumental '-er', so a learner who knows 'shin' and basic English derivation could infer a meaning like 'a blow or contact to the shin'; the term is domain-specific (skateboarding) and slangy, so it is only partially predictable.

Etymology

Perfect shinner comes from skateboarding: a shinner is when the board hits your shin, literally 'a hit to the shin'. When the board lands exactly right and the hit is strong and clear, skaters call it a perfect shinner, so the name means a striking, painful but impressive landing.