as in knife
an instrument with a metal length that has a sharp edge for cutting
watch yourself in Cell Block 8, or you'll end up with a shiv in your back
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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.
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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
Snark and a shiv carry more weight that the nuanced policy arguments about the cost of a bill or the benefits of a regulation.
—Philip Elliott, Time, 3 Mar. 2021
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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
Snark and a shiv carry more weight that the nuanced policy arguments about the cost of a bill or the benefits of a regulation.
—Philip Elliott, Time, 3 Mar. 2021
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“Shiv.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/shiv. Accessed 1 Oct. 2024.
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