break shins

English

Verb

break shins (third-person singular simple present breaks shins, present participle breaking shins, simple past broke shins, past participle broken shins)

  1. (UK, slang, obsolete) To borrow money.

References

  • John Camden Hotten (1873), The Slang Dictionary
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