shiv
nomverbeattesté dans les dialogues
- //ʃɪv//
A knife, especially a makeshift one fashioned from something not normally used as a weapon (like a plastic spoon or a toothbrush).
nom
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argotA 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.
Étymologie
First attested 1915. From chive, chieve, chife, chiv (“knife”), from Romani chive, chiv, chivvomengro (“knife, dagger, blade”).
verbe
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argotTo stab (someone) with a shiv.
Anyway, that's how Jimmie came to be shivved and left to bleed out in the shower.
- 2
argotTo stab (someone) with anything not normally used as a stabbing weapon.
Formes
- pluriel
- shivs
- passé
- shivved
- participe passé
- shivved
- participe présent
- shivving
- 3ᵉ personne du singulier
- shivs
shiv · A knife, especially a makeshift one fashioned from something not normally used as a weapon (like a plastic spoon or a toothbrush).
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