shiv
IPA: ʃˈɪv
noun
- A knife, especially a makeshift one fashioned from something not normally used as a weapon (like a plastic spoon or a toothbrush).
- A particular woody by-product of processing flax or hemp.
- A male given name from Sanskrit mainly used in India.
- A diminutive of the female given name Siobhan.
verb
- To stab someone with a shiv.
- (by extension) To stab someone with anything not normally used as a stabbing weapon.
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Examples of "shiv" in Sentences
- He had a homemade knife we called a shiv in his hand.
- Remember kids: A shiv is a weapon, to shank is the verb.
- 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.
- 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 ...).
- 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.
- 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.
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