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SHIM

4 letters

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TWL06 ✓ SOWPODS ✓ ENABLE1 ✓
Classic 1 pts
Big 1 pts
Super Big 1 pts

SHIM is a valid 4-letter Boggle word. It's listed in all three major word lists — TWL06, SOWPODS, and ENABLE1. It scores 1 in Classic, 1 in Big, and 1 in Super Big Boggle.

Word family

SHIMS-s 2 SHIMMING-ming 11 SHIMMED-med 5
noun
  1. A wedge.
  2. A thin piece of material, sometimes tapered, used for alignment or support.
  3. A small library that transparently intercepts and modifies calls to an API, usually for compatibility purposes.
  4. A kind of shallowly cutting plow used in tillage to break the ground and clear it of weeds.
  5. A small metal device used to pick open a lock.
  6. A thin device inserted into a card reader by a criminal to facilitate fraud.
  7. derogatoryinformaloftenA transsexual person, especially a trans woman; (loosely) a drag queen or transvestite.
  8. derogatoryinformaloftenA person characterised by both male and female traits, or by ambiguous male-female traits; a hermaphrodite.
verb
  1. ambitransitiveTo fit one or more shims to a piece of machinery or other assembly; to adjust (something) by using shims.
  2. To adjust the homogeneity of a magnetic field (after the mechanical devices once used for the purpose).
  3. transitiveTo intercept and modify calls to (an API), usually for compatibility purposes.
  4. ambitransitiveTo attack a point-of-sale card reader with a shim.