shiv
a knife, especially a switchblade.
Also called shank . an improvised or homemade weapon for cutting or stabbing, especially one honed by a prison inmate or used by a criminal.
to cut or stab (someone) with a shiv; shank.
Origin of shiv
1- Rarely chiv .
Words Nearby shiv
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How to use shiv in a sentence
All at once do I keep a wary eye,Knowing I’m on the street where you’d shiv.
Style Invitational Week 1424: We Bee back — a neologism contest | Pat Myers | February 18, 2021 | Washington Post“We are trying to make the weather cute,” shiv Takhar, the other creator, says.
In the mid-60s, the shiv Sena spoke of the erosion of Marathi.
Mumbai on Edge With Shiv Sena Founder Bal Thackeray Ill | Dilip D’Souza | November 16, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTThackeray, it said, “like a veteran general, commanded his loyal shiv Sainiks to retaliate by organized attacks against Muslims.”
Mumbai on Edge With Shiv Sena Founder Bal Thackeray Ill | Dilip D’Souza | November 16, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTYet the astonishing thing is that reports like these are music to the ears of the shiv Sena.
Mumbai on Edge With Shiv Sena Founder Bal Thackeray Ill | Dilip D’Souza | November 16, 2012 | THE DAILY BEAST
Because the big chief of his party, the shiv Sena, went on life support two days ago.
Mumbai on Edge With Shiv Sena Founder Bal Thackeray Ill | Dilip D’Souza | November 16, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTAs fast as his short bowed legs would carry him, he ran to the car and piled in beside shiv.
The man called shiv was driving Delancy's get-away car at a conservative pace so as not to excite suspicion.
shiv speeded up to forty miles an hour as he rolled to the top of a little hill.
shiv steered into the wash room, and the doors dropped back into place.
Then shiv whipped his wheel around for a short turn into the mouth of an alley.
British Dictionary definitions for shiv
/ (ʃɪv) /
a variant spelling of chiv
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