🦵 Lower leg bone 🥩 Meat cut

shin bone

4.2

A cut of meat from the lower leg often used for stews

noun
/ʃɪn boʊn/

: hueso de la espinilla

For the recipe, you need a shin bone to create a hearty broth for the soup.

Examples

To prepare the dish, she carefully simmered the shin bone with vegetables and herbs.
I'm going to take the shin bone, I'm going to break it in two... ...and I'm going to fucking stab you to fucking death with it, right?

In the Loop (2009)
The chef recommended using the shin bone to make a rich and flavorful beef stew.

Synonyms

shin

vsshin bone

1 5.8

A piece of meat from the lower leg of a cow used for stews

is from various animals rather than only bovine sources

How Tender

fillet

16 5.9

sirloin

11 2.9

chuck

7 7.0

shin bone

4.2

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

The cooking meaning of shin bone comes from the same picture: it is the shin bone from an animal's lower leg, often used whole in slow-cooked dishes. The meat and the soft inside of the bone give a rich taste, so cooks call that cut the 'shin bone'.