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chin
noun- gossip, idle conversation US, 1862
- Call me sometime and we’ll have a good chin. I’m in the book. — Max Shulman, Rally Round the Flag, Boys!, p. 209, 1957
- on a bomber, the area immediately below and slightly behind the nose of the plane US
- They had so many, in fact, that they kept the extras up in the chin bubbles. — Robert Mason, Chickenhawk, p. 402, 1983
- The Americans hadn’t put a chin like that on a plane in forty years. — Stephen Coonts, Final Flight, p. 369, 1988
▶ keep your chin up
to maintain your courage or fortitude; often said as an encouraging injunction UK, 1938- Keep your chin up, Liz, and try not to worry. — Lois Duncan, Don’t Look Behind You, p. 18, 1989
- [K]eep your group’s chin up, even in moments of great adversity. — Jean Lipman-Blumen and Harold J. Leavitt, Hot Groups, p. 122, 1999
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