shinnied

Definition of shinniednext
past tense of shinny

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Verb
  • The smugglers let him aboard, and the boy clambered around hatches that, if opened, would reveal dozens of felonies worth of illicit cargo.
    Jack Crosbie, Rolling Stone, 17 Mar. 2026
  • At another point, a ranger waded through the mud of a mangrove forest and clambered into a mangrove to catch a bird for a blood sample, before doing the same trek in reverse to put it back.
    Luis Melecio-Zambrano, Mercury News, 18 Jan. 2026
Verb
  • James ascended for one last alley-oop dunk in the fourth before Doncic’s final 3-pointer, to show not just Durant, but the Rockets, who was king in Houston on Wednesday.
    Benjamin Royer, Oc Register, 19 Mar. 2026
  • The network’s own megahit, Rick and Morty, has ascended from late-night programming into comic books, music, video games, and merchandising, amounting to a revenue stream worth hundreds of millions of dollars.
    Eric Vilas-Boas, Vulture, 18 Mar. 2026
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“Shinnied.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/shinnied. Accessed 31 Mar. 2026.

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