Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having a chin of the kind specified: as, double-chinned.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Having a chin; -- used chiefly in compounds.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
chin . - adjective in combination Having some
specific type ofchin or number of chins.
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Examples
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She "chinned" me about an hour, that evening, and just cut a cameo of her pretty face right on my old heart.
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Said it wasn't until someone had jabbed him in the nose or 'chinned' him that he forgot to be scared. "
Left Tackle Thayer Ralph Henry Barbour 1907
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Has it really been sixteen years since a babyfaced, dimple-chinned Andy Pettitte made his debut with the New York Yankees, who at the time hadn't made it to the postseason since 1981?
Tony Sachs: Saying Goodbye To Andy Pettitte Tony Sachs 2011
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Somehow they got the South convinced that corpulent triple-chinned cowards have the right to send everybody else to fight and die wars they decided to start, based on lies.
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Has it really been sixteen years since a babyfaced, dimple-chinned Andy Pettitte made his debut with the New York Yankees, who at the time hadn't made it to the postseason since 1981?
Tony Sachs: Saying Goodbye To Andy Pettitte Tony Sachs 2011
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Has it really been sixteen years since a babyfaced, dimple-chinned Andy Pettitte made his debut with the New York Yankees, who at the time hadn't...
Tony Sachs: Saying Goodbye To Andy Pettitte Tony Sachs 2011
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Although I would rather be an amphibian than a double chinned has been who has to attack his own president in an attempt to justify a truly miserable and meaningless life.
Gingrich: 'Time to Know, to Profile, and to Discriminate' 2009
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There was a poet in the prison, a convict, a weak-chinned, broad - browed degenerate poet.
Chapter 2 2010
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He was a big, beefy, red-faced personage, full-jowled and double-chinned, sweating at his desk in his shirt-sleeves.
Local Color 2010
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Has it really been sixteen years since a babyfaced, dimple-chinned Andy Pettitte made his debut with the New York Yankees, who at the time hadn't made it to the postseason since 1981?
Tony Sachs: Saying Goodbye To Andy Pettitte Tony Sachs 2011
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