shiv

A Soviet-era Russian shiv.

Meanings

Noun

  • A knife, especially a makeshift one fashioned from something not normally used as a weapon (like a plastic spoon or a toothbrush).
  • A particular woody by-product of processing flax or hemp.

Verb

  • To stab someone with a shiv.
  • To stab someone with anything not normally used as a stabbing weapon.

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Origin

  • First attested 1915. From chive, chieve, chife, chiv, from Romani chive, chiv, chivvomengro.

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