as in knife
an instrument with a metal length that has a sharp edge for cutting
watch yourself in Cell Block 8, or you'll end up with a shiv in your back
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The victim was sitting alone at a table when a man sneaked up behind him and pulled out a shiv from his waistband.
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Rich Schapiro, NBC News, 18 Sep. 2024
For those of you uneducated about Star War Legos, in layman terms this means I was stabbed by a collection of Legos shaped like a prison shiv.
—Sherry Kuehl, Kansas City Star, 21 Feb. 2024
When the dust settles, Torres looks down to see a shiv sticking out of his side.
—EW.com, 12 Feb. 2024
Mac and Ray looked into history and found people to celebrate; Escola looked into history and found people to—metaphorically, of course—shiv.
—Helen Shaw, The New Yorker, 9 Feb. 2024
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Rich Schapiro, NBC News, 18 Sep. 2024
For those of you uneducated about Star War Legos, in layman terms this means I was stabbed by a collection of Legos shaped like a prison shiv.
—Sherry Kuehl, Kansas City Star, 21 Feb. 2024
When the dust settles, Torres looks down to see a shiv sticking out of his side.
—EW.com, 12 Feb. 2024
Mac and Ray looked into history and found people to celebrate; Escola looked into history and found people to—metaphorically, of course—shiv.
—Helen Shaw, The New Yorker, 9 Feb. 2024
See All Example Sentences for shiv
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“Shiv.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/shiv. Accessed 24 Mar. 2025.
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