shiv

SubstantivVerbin Dialogen belegt

//ʃɪv//

A knife, especially a makeshift one fashioned from something not normally used as a weapon (like a plastic spoon or a toothbrush).

Substantiv

1
SlangA knife, especially a makeshift one fashioned from something not normally used as a weapon (like a plastic spoon or a toothbrush).
It's perhaps fitting that I write this introduction in jail—that graduate school of survival. Here you learn how to use toothpaste as glue, fashion a shiv out of a spoon and build intricate communication networks.
Mr. Simpson finished “If I Did It” with the help of a ghostwriter, but after a public outcry, the book was shelved, and the woman who had agreed to publish it lost her job. “Basically, I got the shiv,” Ms. Regan said in a phone interview this week.
2
A particular woody by-product of processing flax or hemp.

Herkunft

First attested 1915. From chive, chieve, chife, chiv (“knife”), from Romani chive, chiv, chivvomengro (“knife, dagger, blade”).

Verb

1
SlangTo stab (someone) with a shiv.
Anyway, that's how Jimmie came to be shivved and left to bleed out in the shower.
2
SlangTo stab (someone) with anything not normally used as a stabbing weapon.

Formen

Plural: shivs
Präteritum: shivved
Partizip II: shivved
Partizip I: shivving
3. Person Singular: shivs

shits · Synonym of diarrhea.shitting · The act of defecating.shitty · Very bad; unpleasant; miserable; insignificant.

shiv · A knife, especially a makeshift one fashioned from something not normally used as a weapon (like a plastic spoon or a toothbrush).

Shiv · A male given name from Sanskrit mainly used in India.shiva · A weeklong period of formal mourning for a close relative.Shiva · The god of destruction and transformation, and together with…

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