chinning
- present participle of chin.
Example Sentences
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Outside is a chinning bar dating to Tolstoy’s day.
From New York Times ● Sep. 21, 2016
CBS Boss Bill Paley and his two new vice presidents, Edward R. Murrow and Davidson Taylor, conceived Operation Crossroads while chinning about their European wartime experiences.
From Time Magazine Archive
In Higashi Village, Japan, the women's youth corps put 50 youths through a husband qualification test which included a marathon run, a rice-bag-carrying race, chinning the bar and plowing, flunked all 50.
From Time Magazine Archive
A staffer found him in the baggage room, chinning with the porters.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Englishmen had also been lifting weights and chinning themselves for years.
From "Slaughterhouse-Five" by Kurt Vonnegut
