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Unknown; from Kent.[1][2] Originally a piece of iron attached to a plow; sense of “thin piece of wood” from 1723, sense of “thin piece of material used for alignment or support” from 1860.
A thin piece of material, sometimes tapered, used for alignment or support.
2016 January 30, Jeff Howell, “Swinging doors: it's not open and shut”, in The Daily Telegraph (Property), page 15:
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.
2010, Russell Smith, Least Privilege Security for Windows 7, Vista and XP:
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.
A kind of shallow plow used in tillage to break the ground and clear it of weeds.
1998, The Seneca review, Hobart Student Association:
He — or "Shim" (she/him), as film director John Waters called the actor Divine — was as much a paradoxical as a perverse fellow.
1995 May 30, The Advocate, page 11:
"We call him shim— short for 'she-him.'
2004 July 26, grdog, “Wisdom of Great Leaders”, in alt.bitch.pork (Usenet):
Yes Maam, or Sir or just what / how do you address a shim?
(informal, often derogatory) A person characterised by both male and female traits, or by ambiguous male-female traits; a hermaphrodite.
2009, Laurie Notaro, The Idiot Girl and the Flaming Tantrum of Death: Reflections on Revenge, Germophobia, and Laser Hair Removal, Ballantine Books, →ISBN, page 89:
[…] 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."
