Skip to main content
1. a thin slip or wedge of metal, wood, etc., for driving into crevices, as between machine parts to compensate for wear, or beneath bedplates, large stones, etc., to level them.

2. A not-nice word for an androgynous looking person. See also: shemale.

3. A seattle based rock band.
1. You just loosen the mounting bolts and slip the shim between the axle and brake backing plate.

2. Wow, you know, I was about to call the person over there a shim, when I remembered that would be fucking mean of me.

3. The shim are my third favourite band.
shim by Coopface December 3, 2006
Related Words
Shim Shimmy shimp shima Shimsham shimi Shimmer shimming Shimmy Sham shimple
whooah look at that shim! its more manly than that one!
shim by kaitlin barnes November 30, 2004
A mixture of the words him and she. Used to describe someone who has characteristics of both a male and female person.
"His wife is such a shim!"
Shim by Corinne Simpson October 15, 2006
(n)-A person of anonymous or unconfirmed gender. Usually only applicable to people met online.
shim by Jon Zamboni August 3, 2005
Commonly used word for small penis originating in northern Texas.

A person with a small dick.
Person A: "My dick is 1.5 inches hard."
Person B: "You're such a shim."

Person A: "What's the difference between a mosquito and a shim?"
Person B: "You can feel a mosquito when it's in you."
Shim by Chris.Plum.Sen.Nim August 12, 2009
A gender-neutral direct object pronoun
Unless the protagonist has a high IQ, I have a hard time identifying with shim.
shim by Linguist6541 April 11, 2009