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shivs

noun

Meaning

  1. A knife, especially a makeshift one fashioned from something not normally used as a weapon (like a plastic spoon or a toothbrush).
  2. A particular woody by-product of processing flax or hemp.
  3. To stab someone with a shiv.
  4. (by extension) To stab someone with anything not normally used as a stabbing weapon.

Etymology / origin

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Sources

  1. DictionaryAPI.dev English dictionary data
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