Definitions
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Plural form of
shiv . - verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
shiv .
Etymologies
Sorry, no etymologies found.
Support
Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word shivs.
Examples
-
The removal of the radiator covers and older beds that inmates can sharpen into weapons called "shivs" or "shanks" are among several steps the city's Department of Correction has taken to address the recent uptick in violence.
City Jails Combat Rise in Inmate Attacks Sean Gardiner 2011
-
Raymond declined to specify the weapons involved, but so-called shivs or shanks - makeshift knives fashioned from pieces of metal, bedframes and even pencils - are commonly used by inmates for protection.
WN.com - Articles related to Kapil Dev offers to bring back Indian immigrant's ashes from Australia 2010
-
Raymond declined to specify the weapons involved, but so-called shivs or shanks - makeshift knives fashioned from pieces of metal, bedframes and even pencils
WN.com - Articles related to Kapil Dev offers to bring back Indian immigrant's ashes from Australia 2010
-
Here are the convicts plotting their plots, flooding their cells, doing their chin-ups, chiseling away at their shivs and shanks; here is the dead-eyed felon, and here the tittering psychopath.
Prison Porn 2010
-
I'd play in center-field of course, where all the, "shivs" or man-made weapons were hidden in the grass, my teammates said.
Joshua Braff: Prison Grass Joshua Braff 2011
-
I'd play in center-field of course, where all the, "shivs" or man-made weapons were hidden in the grass, my teammates said.
Joshua Braff: Prison Grass Joshua Braff 2011
-
I'd play in center-field of course, where all the, "shivs" or man-made weapons were hidden in the grass, my teammates said.
Joshua Braff: Prison Grass Joshua Braff 2011
-
The prison shop, or "industries" as it was called, was where the inmates made licence plates -- and an endless variety of shivs, which they managed to get to their cells by suitcasing them, somehow avoiding internal injury when they did so.
Archive 2009-01-01 2009
-
I'd play in center-field of course, where all the, "shivs" or man-made weapons were hidden in the grass, my teammates said.
Joshua Braff: Prison Grass Joshua Braff 2011
-
I'd play in center-field of course, where all the, "shivs" or man-made weapons were hidden in the grass, my teammates said.
Joshua Braff: Prison Grass Joshua Braff 2011
Comments
Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.