shank
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noun (English)
1. (ornithology, colloquial) A redshank or greenshank, various species of Old World wading birds in the genus Tringa having distinctly colored legs.colloquial
2. (golf) A poorly played golf shot in which the ball is struck by the part of the club head that connects to the shaft.Examples: "To a good golfer a shank is disgracefuller than being dead drunk or in jail."
3. (shoemaking) The part of the sole beneath the instep connecting the broader front part with the heel.
4. (shoemaking) A metal strip strengthening the waists of shoes. (Also shankpiece.)
5. (slang) An improvised stabbing weapon, orig. in prison, possibly from the strips of metal in shoes.Examples: "LBC's tryna blackball me / And tryna blame your boy for knife crime (Like, what?) / I don't use a shank, I got money in the bank / Man, I'd rather do a drive-by"; "One of the shot callers' responsibilities was to control the shanks within the prison population—the crude homemade knives used for stabbing another prisoner."Synonyms: shivslang
6. (architecture) The space between two channels of the Doric triglyph.
verb (English)
1. (archaic, Ulster) To travel on foot.Synonyms: pedestrianize, walk, ambulate, pedestrianize, raikUlsterarchaic
2. (slang) To stab, especially with an improvised blade.Synonyms: jab, shiv, chef, chib, ching, chive, enthrill, foinslang
3. (slang) To remove another's trousers, especially in jest; to depants.Synonyms: debag, depantsslang
4. (transitive, golf) To misstrike the ball with the part of the club head that connects to the shaft.transitive
5. (transitive, chiefly tennis, soccer, gridiron football) To hit or kick the ball in an unintended direction.Examples: "Marouane Chamakh then spurned a great chance to kill the game off when he ran onto Andrey Arshavin's lofted through ball but shanked his shot horribly across the face of goal."transitive
6. (intransitive) To fall off, as a leaf, flower, or capsule, on account of disease affecting the supporting footstalk; usually followed by off.Examples: "the gerrnens of these swelled, and on four out of the six I have now got fine pods, above 1% inch in length, with the seeds externally visible; whereas the flower stalks of the many other flowers all shanked off."intransitive
adj (English)
1. (slang) Bad.slang
Definition source: Wiktionary