Definition of "shinbone" []

• See tibia. (noun)

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• "The freeze still had eight hours to run, but in a small settlement outside the shinbone-in-the-throat settler city of Ariel, it was time to humiliate the president of the United States."
• "His broken shinbone jutted off at an unnatural angle, his only injury we were told at first."
• "I do lead a rather murky life, and my shinbone does get lots of practice."