shiv

slang

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Recent Examples of shiv Mac and Ray looked into history and found people to celebrate; Escola looked into history and found people to—metaphorically, of course—shiv. Helen Shaw, The New Yorker, 9 Feb. 2024 As Kyle Gibson came off the mound after the second inning Monday and again after the fifth, umpiring crew chief Dan Iassogna and colleague Andy Fletcher pulled him aside along the first-base line to check for Spider Tack, other sticky substances, nail files or — who knows — perhaps a shiv. Evan Grant, Dallas News, 21 June 2021 He was attacked with a shiv and was left to die. Tamara Fuentes, Seventeen, 10 June 2020 Whatever Paperny might have been expecting — a battle-scarred lifer, a guy who could turn a Bic pen into a shiv — Santos wasn’t it. New York Times, 7 June 2022 See all Example Sentences for shiv 

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“Shiv.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/shiv. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.

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