Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A knife, razor, or other sharp or pointed implement, especially one used as a weapon.
- transitive verb To stab with a shiv.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
knife . Usually associated with a makeshift instrument fashioned from something not normally used as a weapon (like a plastic spoon or a toothbrush). - noun A woody by-product from processing flax or hemp.
- noun computing A
shim , i.e. a smalllibrary that transparently intercepts and modifies calls to anAPI , usually forcompatibility purposes. - verb To stab someone with a shiv.
- verb By extension, to stab someone with anything not intended as a stabbing weapon.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a knife used as a weapon
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Let's face it, the list is full of geriatrics who couldn't make a shiv from a broken piece of metal if their lives depended on it.
An Open Letter to David Horowitz Richard Nokes 2006
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He had a homemade knife we called a shiv in his hand.
A Burning in Homeland Richard Yancey 2003
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A shiv is all about masked utility: it’s an innocuous object with improbably toxic intent (whether used to attack others or to protect oneself ...).
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Remember kids: A shiv is a weapon, to shank is the verb.
St. Louis Game Time 2010
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This is a slideshow of shivs confiscated from maximum-security prison facilities: A shiv is a weapon crafted from the limited resources of a prisoner�s closed world.
Eli Foner 2008
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This is a slideshow of shivs confiscated from maximum-security prison facilities: A shiv is a weapon crafted from the limited resources of a prisoner�s closed world.
Eli Foner 2008
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This is a slideshow of shivs confiscated from maximum-security prison facilities: A shiv is a weapon crafted from the limited resources of a prisoner�s closed world.
Eli Foner Eli Foner 2008
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This is a slideshow of shivs confiscated from maximum-security prison facilities: A shiv is a weapon crafted from the limited resources of a prisoner�s closed world.
Eli Foner 2008
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This is a slideshow of shivs confiscated from maximum-security prison facilities: A shiv is a weapon crafted from the limited resources of a prisoner�s closed world.
Eli Foner 2008
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I've seen a lot of these complaints and criticisms before, and even voiced a few myself, just never sharpened to this kind of shiv-point or stuck in quite so mercilessly.
Archive 2009-08-30 2009
bilby commented on the word shiv
See also chib.
December 29, 2018