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🦵 Lower leg bone 🥩 Meat cut
shin bone

shin bone

1 2.5
The large inner bone in the lower leg from knee to ankle
  • noun
  • /ʃɪn boʊn/
translation icon : tibia
  • After he fell, X-rays showed a fracture in his shin bone, which is essential for leg movement.

I have seen on one occasion a shin bone break from an Achilles lock, but there was an enormous size and strength disparity.

Examples

  • When Lou Brissie was in Italy serving in W.W. II, he was hit by artillery fire that shattered his shin bone into 30 pieces, breaking his foot and ankle.

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  • The doctor explained that the shin bone, also known as the tibia, is crucial for supporting the body's weight.

  • This is exactly how a human knee would look and look at the shin bone, how it protrudes.

  • The shin bone.

    In the Loop (2009)

  • I have seen on one occasion a shin bone break from an Achilles lock, but there was an enormous size and strength disparity.

    Lex Fridman

  • The athlete felt a sharp pain in his shin bone during the game, indicating a possible injury.

Synonyms

shin
vsshin bone
32 1.0

The front part of the lower leg between the knee and the ankle

is the specific internal bone rather than the outer area
tibia
vsshin bone
  • Specialized
17 5.4

The larger bone in the lower leg between knee and ankle

is the common anatomical name for the same bone
shinbone
vsshin bone
3 1.6

A thick inner bone in the lower leg between the knee and ankle

is the same meaning but written as two separate words

Surface Forms

shin bone singular
shin bones plural

Morphology

shin + bone

The meaning is directly compositional: 'shin' (the lower part of the leg or a cut from it) + 'bone' yields the bone from the shin or the meat cut containing that bone. This follows regular noun–noun compound formation and is cross-linguistically transparent, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents can infer the culinary sense.

Etymology

Shin bone simply names the large shin bone at the front of the lower leg. It is the bone you feel when you bump your shin, so the phrase refers to the main bone between the knee and the ankle.