shiv
see also: Shiv
Pronunciation Noun

shiv (plural shivs)

  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.
Synonyms
  • (improvised stabbing weapon) shank qual slang
Translations
  • Russian: зато́чка
Verb

shiv (shivs, present participle shivving; past shivved, past participle shivved)

  1. To stab someone with a shiv.
  2. (by extension) To stab someone with anything not normally used as a stabbing weapon.
Synonyms
  • shank#Verb|shank (slang)
Translations
  • Italian: accoltellare
  • Russian: пырну́ть зато́чкой
Translations
  • Russian: пырну́ть

Shiv
Proper noun
  1. A male given name mainly used in India.
Proper noun
  1. A female given name.
    • 2003 Ian Rankin, A Question of Blood, Orion, ISBN 0-75285-110-1, page 19:
      'Hiya, Shiv. It's Bobby Hogan here.' Detective Inspector Bobby Hogan. She'd asked him before not to call her Shiv. A lot of people tried it. Siobhan, pronounced Shi-vawn, shortened to Shiv. When people wrote her name down, it turned into all sorts of erroneous spellings. She remembered that Fairstone had called her 'Shiv' a few times, attempting familiarity. She hated it, and knew she should correct Hogan, but she didn't.



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