Before her mother brought her to New York she'd lived in a village near some park gates, and she chinned about it till she died.
Pete reached for the top, chinned himself, and squirmed astride it.
She swung herself lightly to the lowest branch, chinned herself, and climbed the tree.
He chinned with me a while—caught up with me and gave me a letter to mail.
He took me to his room and we chinned the thing over for two or three hours.
Next I grasped a horizontal bar and chinned myself fifty times with one hand.
We chinned away there for hours until it began to grow late, when the girls concluded they would have to go.
Lor bless yer, this Lucyun, 'e knowed all the cackles as ever was chinned.
She "chinned" me about an hour, that evening, and just cut a cameo of her pretty face right on my old heart.
Josh announced, as he jumped up and chinned himself against a handy rafter of the low shed.
"having a chin or chins" (of a certain kind or number), used in combinations from c.1600.
Old English cin, cinn "chin" (but in some compounds suggesting an older, broader sense of "jawbone"); a general Germanic word (cf. Old Saxon and Old High German kinni; Old Norse kinn; German Kinn "chin;" Gothic kinnus "cheek"), from PIE root *genu- "chin, jawbone" (cf. Sanskrit hanuh, Avestan zanu- "chin;" Armenian cnawt "jawbone, cheek;" Lithuanian žándas "jawbone;" Greek genus "lower jaw," geneion "chin;" Old Irish gin "mouth," Welsh gen "jawbone, chin").
1590s, "to press (affectionately) chin to chin," from chin (n.). Meaning "to bring to the chin" (of a fiddle) is from 1869. Slang meaning "talk, gossip" is from 1883, American English. Related: Chinned; chinning. Athletic sense of "raise one's chin over" (a raised bar, for exercise) is from 1880s.
The prominence formed by the anterior projection of the lower jaw.