Definitions
1.NounA wedge.
2.NounA thin piece of material, sometimes tapered, used for alignment or support.
3.NounA small library that transparently intercepts and modifies calls to an API, usually for compatibility purposes.
4.NounA kind of shallowly cutting plow used in tillage to break the ground and clear it of weeds.
5.NounA small metal device used to pick open a lock.
6.NounA thin device inserted into a card reader by a criminal to facilitate fraud.
7.VerbTo fit one or more shims to a piece of machinery or other assembly; to adjust (something) by using shims.
8.VerbTo adjust the homogeneity of a magnetic field (after the mechanical devices once used for the purpose).
9.VerbTo intercept and modify calls to (an API), usually for compatibility purposes.
10.VerbTo attack a point-of-sale card reader with a shim.
11.NounA transsexual person, especially a trans woman; a drag queen or transvestite.
12.NounA person characterised by both male and female traits, or by ambiguous male-female traits; a hermaphrodite.