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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
shinny .
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Examples
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Up the pole the young lad "shinnied," as he expressed it, until he reached the wire rope.
Time and Again Finney, Jack 1995
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I may have somewhat drunkenly shinnied up a fence to climb onto Ben's fire escape and spent a while rapping vainly on his back door.
Adventures of a Couch-Hopping Scribbler Part 2: That Toddlin Town Hal Duncan 2010
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I may have somewhat drunkenly shinnied up a fence to climb onto Ben's fire escape and spent a while rapping vainly on his back door.
Archive 2010-06-01 Hal Duncan 2010
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Anyway, who could have shinnied up a rope with a patent-leather belt on?
i know i am, but what are you? SAMANTHA BEE 2010
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She hiked up her chiton and shinnied up the long, slippery, swooping neck of the bronze dragon, searching for the on-off switch.
Artemis the Brave Joan Holub 2010
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The aircraft started to drop lines to the deck and Israeli soldiers shinnied down them.
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Janie had never shinnied down a drainpipe before, and halfway down the one outside her window she fell, numbing her left arm and side.
The Night Of the Solstice L.J. SMITH 2010
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She hiked up her chiton and shinnied up the long, slippery, swooping neck of the bronze dragon, searching for the on-off switch.
Artemis the Brave Joan Holub 2010
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She hiked up her chiton and shinnied up the long, slippery, swooping neck of the bronze dragon, searching for the on-off switch.
Artemis the Brave Joan Holub 2010
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Anyway, who could have shinnied up a rope with a patent-leather belt on?
i know i am, but what are you? SAMANTHA BEE 2010
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