Meaning of Shim | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A wedge.
2. A transsexual person, especially a trans woman; (loosely) a drag queen or transvestite.
   derogatory, informal, often
3. A surname.
4. Abbreviation of scanning helium ion microscope.
   abbreviation, alt-of, uncountable
5. A thin piece of material, sometimes tapered, used for alignment or support.
6. A person characterised by both male and female traits, or by ambiguous male-female traits; a hermaphrodite.
   derogatory, informal, often
7. A small library that transparently intercepts and modifies calls to an API, usually for compatibility purposes.
8. A kind of shallow plow used in tillage to break the ground and clear it of weeds.
9. A small metal device used to pick open a lock.

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Examples

“The second adjustment [to a door that keeps swinging open] will require the screws to be loosened, and a shim or packing piece pushed behind the hinge to bring it into line.”

“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.”

“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?”

“[…] 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."”

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