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shim

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Is shim a Scrabble word?

Yes, shim is a valid Scrabble word! Worth 9 points in Scrabble.

Word Games

  • Scrabble US/Canada (OTCWL) Yes
  • Scrabble UK (SOWPODS) Yes
  • Wordle No
  • Words With Friends Yes

What is the meaning of shim?

Definition

noun (English)

1. (computing) A small library that transparently intercepts and modifies calls to an API, usually for compatibility purposes.Examples: "Shims intercept Win32 API calls from legacy applications, as defined by system administrators, and then modify the call before passing the code to Windows for execution."

verb (English)

1. (computing, transitive) To intercept and modify calls to (an API), usually for compatibility purposes.transitive

noun (English)

1. (informal, often derogatory) A transsexual person, especially a trans woman; (loosely) a drag queen or transvestite.Examples: "He — or "Shim" (she/him), as film director John Waters called the actor Divine — was as much a paradoxical as a perverse fellow."; ""We call him shim— short for 'she-him.'"; "Yes Maam, or Sir or just what / how do you address a shim?"Synonyms: he-shederogatoryinformaloften

2. (informal, often derogatory) A person characterised by both male and female traits, or by ambiguous male-female traits; a hermaphrodite.Examples: "[…] that I was a hermaphrodite, and that things would probably be getting much, much worse as other "parts" of me began to grow manly and I made the full transformation into a "shim.""derogatoryinformaloften

noun (English)

1. (uncountable, microscopy) Abbreviation of scanning helium ion microscope.abbreviationalt-ofuncountable

Definition source: Wiktionary

What Scrabble words can I make with the letters in "shim"?

How many Scrabble points is the word "shim"?

Scrabble
9 points
S1
H4
I1
M3
Words With Friends
9 points
S1
H3
I1
M4

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