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shiv

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4 lettersPronunciation /ʃɪv/Part of speech nounSorted hisvStarts with SEnds with V0 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. a knife used as a weapon

Word origin

First attested 1915. From chive, chieve, chife, chiv (“knife”), from Romani chive, chiv, chivvomengro (“knife, dagger, blade”).

Used in a sentence

  • 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.
  • Anyway, that's how Jimmie came to be shivved and left to bleed out in the shower.

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