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shiv

noun
/ʃɪv/

Etymology

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

  1. derived from chive

Definitions

  1. A knife, especially a makeshift one fashioned from something not normally used as a…

    A 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.

  2. A particular woody by-product of processing flax or hemp.

  3. To stab (someone) with a shiv.

    • Anyway, that's how Jimmie came to be shivved and left to bleed out in the shower.
  4. ›+ 3 more definitions

    1. To stab (someone) with anything not normally used as a stabbing weapon.

    2. A male given name from Sanskrit mainly used in India.

    3. A diminutive of the female given name Siobhan.

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Derived

shivvy

Vish — recursive loop

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