chiv

chiv

slang Primarily heard in UK.

1. noun A knife or similar stabbing implement, especially one that is homemade or crudely fashioned. The prisoner was stabbed with a chiv made from the sharpened handle of a broken broom. How do you think Ricky the Rat ended up getting stabbed? His mortal enemy had a chiv, and no guards were around. These prisoners sure get creative when it comes to fashioning a chiv out of something.

2. verb To cut or stab (someone) with such a weapon. Be careful if you mean to arrest him. Scum like him won't hesitate to chiv you with a blade hidden in the folds of their coats. I hear the prisoner was chivved with the sharpened handle of a broken broom. The more enemies you make in this place, the more likely one of them chivs you before you're released

shiv

slang Primarily heard in US.

1. noun A knife or similar stabbing implement, especially one that is homemade or crudely fashioned. The prisoner was stabbed with a shiv made from the sharpened handle of a broken broom.

2. verb To cut or stab (someone) with such a weapon. Be careful if you mean to arrest him. Scum like him won't hesitate to shiv you with a blade hidden in the folds of their coats.

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shiv

and chiv (ʃɪv)

1. n. a knife. (Underworld.) Swiftly and silently his shiv found its way up under Rocko’s ribs. All for a silly dame.

2. tv. to stab someone. (Underworld.) The boss told Joel Cairo to get Sam one way or the other—shiv him, burn him, clobber him—but get him.

chiv

verb

See shiv

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