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plural shivs
A knife, especially a makeshift one fashioned from something not normally used as a weapon (like a plastic spoon or a toothbrush). quotations examples
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.
1971, Abbie Hoffman, “Introduction”, in Steal This Book, Pirate Editions / Grove Press
A particular woody by-product of processing flax or hemp. examples
third-person singular simple present shivs, present participle shivving, simple past and past participle shivved
To stab someone with a shiv. examples
(by extension) To stab someone with anything not normally used as a stabbing weapon. examples