Answer to "Leg area" crossword clue

The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word SHANK , but the solution may also be SHIN which is one of the most recent solution (2004 in Newsday).

Leg area crossword clue answers

Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.

Answer	Likelyness	Letters
SHANK	50 %	5
SHIN	50 %	4

Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Leg area

These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.

• shin
• shank
• calf
• pastern
• ankle
• arm
• curb
• edge
• end
• extension
• flare
• frame

Crossword Answer definitions

SHANK noun

1. The part of the leg between the knee and the ankle.
2. Meat from that part of an animal.
3. A redshank or greenshank, various species of Old World wading birds in the genus Tringa having distinctly colored legs.
4. A straight, narrow part of an object, such as a key or an anchor; shaft; stem.
5. The handle of a pair of shears, connecting the ride to the neck.
6. The center part of a fishhook between the eye and the hook, the 'hook' being the curved part that bends toward the point.
7. A protruding part of an object, by which it is or can be attached.
8. The metal part on a curb bit that falls below the mouthpiece, which length controls the severity of the leverage action of the bit, and to which the reins of the bridle are attached.
9. A poorly played golf shot in which the ball is struck by the part of the club head that connects to the shaft.
10. An improvised stabbing weapon; a shiv.
11. A loop forming an eye to a button.
12. The space between two channels of the Doric triglyph.
13. A large ladle for molten metal, fitted with long bars for handling it.
14. The body of a type; between the shoulder and the foot.
15. (shoemaking) The part of the sole beneath the instep connecting the broader front part with the heel.
16. Flat-nosed pliers, used by opticians for nipping off the edges of pieces of glass to make them round.
17. The end or remainder, particularly of a period of time.
18. The main part or beginning of a period of time.

SHANK verb

1. To travel on foot.
2. To stab, especially with an improvised blade.
3. To remove another's trousers, especially in jest; to depants.
4. To misstrike the ball with the part of the club head that connects to the shaft.
5. To hit or kick the ball in an unintended direction.
6. To fall off, as a leaf, flower, or capsule, on account of disease affecting the supporting footstalk; usually followed by off.
7. To provide (a button) with a shank (loop forming an eye).
8. (shoemaking) To apply the shank to a shoe, during the process of manufacturing it.

SHANK adjective

1. Bad.

More crossword clues leading to the same solutions

Here's a few more crossword clues - all leading to the identical solution

More clues leading to the result SHANK

• Leglike part
• Beef cut
• Bolt part
• Butcher's cut
• Certain part of the evening, slangily
• Can opener?
• Poor golf shot
• Leg part
• Lamb cut
• Leg area

More clues leading to the result SHIN

• Leg part
• __ splints (jogger's woe)
• Climb, as a tree
• Knee-ankle connection
• Tibia locale
• Place for a guard
• Leg bone
• ___ splints
• It's guarded on a soccer pitch
• Tibia