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词汇 shiv
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Definition of shiv in English:

shiv

noun ʃɪvʃɪv
North American informal
  • A knife or razor used as a weapon.

    〈北美,非正式〉(用作武器的)小刀(或剃刀)

    Example sentencesExamples
    • We all want to be decent, human beings, and not stick a shiv in the formerly bloated hillbilly heroin junkie, but that sympathy is misplaced.
    • You collect the material and create the shiv you fight with!
    • Getting his hands on the first weapon he finds, he pulls a shiv, or a ‘homemade’ knife out of an inmate.
    • And then Dole paid him back by going public about the phone call and digging the shiv in a little deeper.
    • They always shed crocodile tears and call the other side's attacks vicious and beyond the pale while they are sticking the shiv in as hard as they can.
    • This wasn't a forgivable tiny piece of eggshell, but a large wall of shell that looked like a shiv a bird might carve in prison.
    • Rosa Parks didn't make a shiv and start knifing people when she was arrested.
    • For those who like more direct courses of action, getting your hands on a shiv or another weapon will probably be the first thing you want to do.
    • Blades are his specialty - the shiv, the ice pick, the Flora Dora.
    • What if I got a shiv in the ribs for all my trouble?
    • And it was all scary, because she had a lot of plastic bags with her, and I didn't know if there was maybe something pointy in one of them, like a shiv with my name on it.
    • She gave everybody the shiv before they gave it to her.
    • She did, I will say this, fashion a shiv out of the lamb shank.
    • And it makes me wonder: They stick the shiv in the ribs of their richest and most enthusiastic backers.
    • At that, he withdraws a shiv and runs the crude blade in a slow, deliberate arc from the top of his brow to his chin as the guards rush and tackle him.

Origin

Probably from Romany chiv 'blade'.

Rhymes

forgive, give, live, misgive, outlive, sieve, spiv, Viv

Definition of shiv in US English:

shiv

nounʃɪvSHiv
North American informal
  • A knife or razor used as a weapon.

    〈北美,非正式〉(用作武器的)小刀(或剃刀)

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Blades are his specialty - the shiv, the ice pick, the Flora Dora.
    • What if I got a shiv in the ribs for all my trouble?
    • She did, I will say this, fashion a shiv out of the lamb shank.
    • You collect the material and create the shiv you fight with!
    • Getting his hands on the first weapon he finds, he pulls a shiv, or a ‘homemade’ knife out of an inmate.
    • This wasn't a forgivable tiny piece of eggshell, but a large wall of shell that looked like a shiv a bird might carve in prison.
    • She gave everybody the shiv before they gave it to her.
    • They always shed crocodile tears and call the other side's attacks vicious and beyond the pale while they are sticking the shiv in as hard as they can.
    • At that, he withdraws a shiv and runs the crude blade in a slow, deliberate arc from the top of his brow to his chin as the guards rush and tackle him.
    • Rosa Parks didn't make a shiv and start knifing people when she was arrested.
    • For those who like more direct courses of action, getting your hands on a shiv or another weapon will probably be the first thing you want to do.
    • And then Dole paid him back by going public about the phone call and digging the shiv in a little deeper.
    • And it was all scary, because she had a lot of plastic bags with her, and I didn't know if there was maybe something pointy in one of them, like a shiv with my name on it.
    • And it makes me wonder: They stick the shiv in the ribs of their richest and most enthusiastic backers.
    • We all want to be decent, human beings, and not stick a shiv in the formerly bloated hillbilly heroin junkie, but that sympathy is misplaced.

Origin

Probably from Romany chiv ‘blade’.

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