as in knife
an instrument with a metal length that has a sharp edge for cutting
watch yourself in Cell Block 8, or you'll end up with a shiv in your back
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Recent Examples of shiv
Imagine a world where Superman is stopping a bank robbery, but every weapon is packed with Kryptonite ammunition and every petty criminal carries a Kryptonite shiv.
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Jeff Spry, Space.com, 20 Jan. 2025
Chimney walks them through using the shiv to slice down to the muscle along the girl’s leg.
—Louis Peitzman, Vulture, 3 Oct. 2024
The victim was sitting alone at a table when a man sneaked up behind him and pulled out a shiv from his waistband.
—Rich Schapiro, NBC News, 18 Sep. 2024
For those of you uneducated about Star War Legos, in layman terms this means I was stabbed by a collection of Legos shaped like a prison shiv.
—Sherry Kuehl, Kansas City Star, 21 Feb. 2024
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Jeff Spry, Space.com, 20 Jan. 2025
Chimney walks them through using the shiv to slice down to the muscle along the girl’s leg.
—Louis Peitzman, Vulture, 3 Oct. 2024
The victim was sitting alone at a table when a man sneaked up behind him and pulled out a shiv from his waistband.
—Rich Schapiro, NBC News, 18 Sep. 2024
For those of you uneducated about Star War Legos, in layman terms this means I was stabbed by a collection of Legos shaped like a prison shiv.
—Sherry Kuehl, Kansas City Star, 21 Feb. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for shiv
Noun
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Use a sharp knife to cut rolls into ¼-inch slices.—
Elizabeth Fogarty,
Better Homes & Gardens,
11 Nov. 2025
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Heule used a computational Swiss Army knife called satisfiability, or SAT, to whittle them into submission.—
Quanta Magazine,
Quanta Magazine,
10 Nov. 2025
Noun
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The Coast Guard launched a response involving the cutter Angela McShan (WPC 1135), an HC-130 Hercules airplane and an MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter from Air Station Elizabeth City.—
Stepheny Price,
FOXNews.com,
7 Nov. 2025
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Shohei Ohtani, who had started the game on short rest and surrendered a three-run blast to Bo Bichette that put the Dodgers in a hole, hacked at a first-pitch cutter inside that Isiah Kiner-Falefa at second base handled easily.—
Fabian Ardaya,
New York Times,
2 Nov. 2025
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“Shiv.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/shiv. Accessed 4 Dec. 2025.
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